Sorry for not replying sooner, I did not get around to actually testing the Debian installer.
On 2009-12-23 02:54 +0100, Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: ncurses-base > Version: 5.7+20090803-2 > Severity: normal > > The Debian installer uses bogl-bterm on the primary terminal, which uses > TERM=bterm. Neither ncurses-base nor ncurses-term knows about this > terminal type, so all screen-oriented programs fail to run. This > affects the ability to run such programs from a rescue environment, > forcing the user to switch to an alternate TTY rather than using the > shell run by the installer; if the user doesn't know how to do that, > they'll find themselves unable to run editors, aptitude, and other such > programs useful when recovering a system. With an up to date installer (a netinst snapshot from yesterday) this does not happen, because it copies the bterm terminfo entry to a temporary directory under /target and sets TERMINFO accordingly. I haven't tested the Lenny installer, though. > Please include the terminfo entry for bterm, preferably in ncurses-base, > but if not there then in ncurses-term. Taking over the bterm terminfo entry from bogl-bterm in ncurses-term would be possible, but given bogl-bterm's very low popcon I don't think it would be very useful. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
