Hello, the st ebuilds are not installing the terminfo files. The ebuild is also deleting the tic line from the Makefile can you please change the src_install function of the ebuild to be this: src_install() { emake DESTDIR="${D}" PREFIX="${EPREFIX}"/usr install tic -s -o "${ED}"/usr/share/terminfo st.info || die dodoc TODO . . . . Thanks
Those are installed by sys-libs/ncurses-6*.
I believe part of the story is that the general availability of terminfo details via sys-libs/ncurses is delayed by at least a few factors: - ncurses upstream adopting new terminfo supplied from terminal projects' upstreams - new releases from ncurses upstream containing new terminfo - distros packaging/stabilizing new ncurses releases - distro users updating their systems For example, if I'm reading things correctly, today sys-libs/ncurses-6.2-r1 includes terminfo for x11-terms/st-0.8.2, but x11-terms/st-0.8.3 is already released containing terminfo changes which are going to be missing on systems for a while due the above. While I believe that process is more or less "business as usual", and may be worked around via local and/or per-user configuration, I wonder if we could do better on the Gentoo packaging side of the story. What I have in mind is the following: - let the x11-terms/st ebuild install their own terminfo files to an alternative location to avoid conflict with files in /usr/share/terminfo installed by sys-libs/ncurses - let the x11-terms/st ebuild also install a file into /etc/env.d which specifies a TERMINFO_DIRS variable pointing to the alternative terminfo location, which can be picked up by ncurses earlier than the /usr/share/terminfo location - probably also making sure TERMINFO_DIRS is allowed to have multiple values separated by colons What would be a good alternative location for extra terminfo files? /usr/local/share is ruled out from ebuilds, /opt/st/share doesn't feel like a good match, but perhaps /use/share/st/terminfo could work? Does that idea sound feasible? I think I'll play with this in my overlay, but of course I would be happy to make sure the result something I can send for inclusion in the official portage tree as well.
After all, I decided to go for a split out x11-terms/st-terminfo in my overlay[1], and then let x11-terms/st depend on that (inspired by x11-terms/kitty-terminfo). This approach does not just enable st users to have their own version's terminfo files installed, but also enables administrators to install only the terminfo files without st for any st user possibly logging in to their systems. I plan to send either this or the originally outlined approach for review in a GitHub PR. Let me know any early feedback about this. [1]: https://github.com/ferki/gentoo-overlay
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=fa44f3be8da1351734708634e575e27bde98d635 commit fa44f3be8da1351734708634e575e27bde98d635 Author: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-01-07 20:36:51 +0000 Commit: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-01-07 20:43:54 +0000 x11-terms/st: add 0.8.5 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/592332 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/18326 Signed-off-by: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> x11-terms/st/Manifest | 1 + x11-terms/st/st-0.8.5.ebuild | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 76 insertions(+) Additionally, it has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d65ae4798481462d0c332a98329f2c6075fd57c8 commit d65ae4798481462d0c332a98329f2c6075fd57c8 Author: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-01-07 20:32:45 +0000 Commit: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-01-07 20:43:53 +0000 x11-terms/st-terminfo: initial import Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/592332 Signed-off-by: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> x11-terms/st-terminfo/Manifest | 1 + x11-terms/st-terminfo/metadata.xml | 8 ++++ x11-terms/st-terminfo/st-terminfo-0.8.5.ebuild | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ x11-terms/st-terminfo/st-terminfo-9999.ebuild | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 111 insertions(+)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=07c68bf55b6a6233a6882675e8b4013b3c3affe8 commit 07c68bf55b6a6233a6882675e8b4013b3c3affe8 Author: Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2022-01-08 10:22:48 +0000 Commit: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-01-08 10:29:24 +0000 x11-terms/st: add 0.8.5 This reverts commit 2a6d918cc0b6dfcc5d3e2e3af2d510ddd978f7ee. PR: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/18326 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/592332 Co-authored-by: Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> x11-terms/st/Manifest | 1 + x11-terms/st/st-0.8.5.ebuild | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 76 insertions(+) https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=92126d7ad3a853e5a8854a99842e02c1ac465805 commit 92126d7ad3a853e5a8854a99842e02c1ac465805 Author: Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2022-01-08 10:19:57 +0000 Commit: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-01-08 10:29:23 +0000 x11-terms/st-terminfo: initial import This reverts commit 3215a06f5a0b44e99ab9619656f740daa4dbeee4. PR: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/18326 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/592332 Co-authored-by: Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ferenc Erki <erkiferenc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org> x11-terms/st-terminfo/Manifest | 1 + x11-terms/st-terminfo/metadata.xml | 8 ++++ x11-terms/st-terminfo/st-terminfo-0.8.5.ebuild | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ x11-terms/st-terminfo/st-terminfo-9999.ebuild | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 111 insertions(+)
