Bug 192083 – sys-libs/ncurses should include rxvt-unicode terminfo with USE="unicode"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) 2007-09-11 09:04:03 UTC]

Hi,

emerge rxvt-unicode
run urxvt
ssh a-gentoo-ssh-server

->  can't find terminal definition for rxvt-unicode

with TERM="xterm-color" it works, but the mappings are a little different.


I guess ncurses, when emerged with USE="unicode", should include unicode term definitions. See for example how debian handles this.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-09-11 09:10:02 UTC]

That will nicely collide with x11-terms/rxvt-unicode. :P

[Comment 2 Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) 2007-09-11 14:41:17 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> That will nicely collide with x11-terms/rxvt-unicode. :P
> 


/usr/share/terminfo/rxvt-unicode should be provided by ncurses, not by rxvt-unicode. Just as the big majority of the other files under /usr/share/terminfo

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2007-09-11 17:05:48 UTC]

rxvt-unicode needs to be updated first i think

[Comment 4 Ewan Marshall 2008-01-01 16:14:22 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> rxvt-unicode needs to be updated first i think
> 

Leaving urxvt users without a termcap at all. I think really you should just sync the release of the two new ebuilds.

[Comment 5 ferret 2008-03-31 23:54:10 UTC]

I'm not sure if you can do it this way, but I think it needs something like:

in the new ncurses ebuild: PDEPEND="!<x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-NEWVERSION"
in the new rxvt-unicode ebuild: DEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-NEWVERSION"

I would really like to see this bug fixed. ;p

[Comment 6 Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) 2008-04-01 13:44:42 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I'm not sure if you can do it this way, but I think it needs something like:
> 
> in the new ncurses ebuild: PDEPEND="!<x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-NEWVERSION"
> in the new rxvt-unicode ebuild: DEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-NEWVERSION"
> 
> I would really like to see this bug fixed. ;p
> 

This is probably the best way to handle that.


Otherwise, the upgrade will end up with a file collision if you upgrade ncurses just before rxvt-unicode.

[Comment 7 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) 2008-11-03 15:38:01 UTC]

The future is now.  sys-libs/ncurses-5.7 collides with rxvt-unicode-9.05-r3

[Comment 8 René Nussbaumer (RETIRED) 2008-12-21 20:34:22 UTC]

what?! On my system this is not provided. Will revert to old behaviour.

[Comment 9 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) 2009-10-27 19:22:44 UTC]

Created attachment 208453 [details, diff]
patch for ncurses that generates rxvt-unicode terminfo

got it from latest rxvt-unicode

[Comment 10 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) 2009-10-27 19:25:34 UTC]

Created attachment 208455 [details, diff]
ncurses 5.7-r2 -> 5.7-r3 patch

ncurses-5.7-r3 that uses previous patch and blocks rxvt-unicode ebuilds that would conflict with it

[Comment 11 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) 2009-10-27 19:29:23 UTC]

Created attachment 208456 [details, diff]
rxvt-unicode-9.06-r2 -> 9.06-r3 patch

-r3 depends on patched ncurses and doesn't install the terminfo itself

[Comment 12 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) 2009-10-27 19:31:14 UTC]

Everyone please review all of the above. If we intend to change things this is probably the way to go.

We'll just have to commit both updates at the same time :)

[Comment 13 SpanKY 2009-10-28 02:11:14 UTC]

ncurses patches look fine to me.  feel free to bump & commit when the rxvt-unicode ebuild gets updated.

[Comment 14 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) 2009-10-28 12:24:30 UTC]

This is now fixed in tree :)