Re: ANN: ncurses-6.4-20230708

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Sven Joachim" <svenjoac@gmx.de>
| To: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@his.com>
| Cc: "Ncurses Mailing List" <bug-ncurses@gnu.org>
| Sent: Monday, July 10, 2023 11:23:24 AM
| Subject: Re: ANN: ncurses-6.4-20230708

| On 2023-07-09 00:40 +0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
| 
|> 20230708
|>      + disallow using $TERMINFO or $HOME/.terminfo when tic "-o" option is
|>        used (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #1040048).
| 
| Thanks for implementing that.  Unfortunately it seems to have introduced
| a new problem: if TERMINFO is set to a non-existent directory, tic will
| write to ${HOME}/.terminfo rather than the system database when run as
| root:

hmm - I can probably fix that without too much work...

| ,----
|| # tic -V
|| ncurses 6.4.20230708
|| # ncurses6-config --terminfo
|| /etc/terminfo
|| # infocmp dumb > dumb.ti
|| # TERMINFO=/no/such/dir HOME=/ tic dumb.ti
|| # ls /etc/terminfo/d
|| ls: cannot access '/etc/terminfo/d': No such file or directory
|| # ls /.terminfo/d
|| dumb
|| #
| `----
| 
| Cheers,
|        Sven

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