Bug 1660635

Summary:	ncurses-base is missing rxvt-unicode-256color terminfo
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Robbie Harwood <rharwood>
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority:	low
Version:	8.1	CC:	andreas.bierfert, extras-qa, jpokorny, mlichvar, quantum.analyst, thozza
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	EasyFix
Target Release:	8.0
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Clone Of:	1430935	Environment:
Last Closed:	2020-03-27 11:13:43 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Robbie Harwood 2018-12-18 21:23:17 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1430935 +++

ncurses-base includes several other rxvt variants, but not this one.  It is a reasonably common emulator, and having to drag in the terminal itself (including all dependencies) is not great for headless systems.  Other distros (e.g., Debian) include this terminfo in their bundle.

In Fedora, this could be worked around by installing rxvt-unicode-256color; however, this is not present in RHEL-8, so the workaround isn't possible.

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2019-10-31 09:13:49 UTC

It seems there is now an rxvt-unicode package in epel8. If ncurses-base adopts the terminfo entry, it needs to be coordinated with the epel package to avoid file conflicts.

Comment 2 Robbie Harwood 2019-10-31 15:37:59 UTC

Not to worry, that's also me.  Just say when you're ready and I'll drop the terminfo stuff from epel8.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2020-03-27 11:13:43 UTC

Development Management has reviewed and declined this request. You may appeal this decision by reopening this request.