Initscripts and tput

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:11 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:07:08PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:56 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> > 
> > > After a long session hacking initscripts today, I realized that we are
> > > relying on tput to get ansi control characters.  This is not bad except
> > > that tput is in /usr/bin/ and /usr may not be available to use before
> > > mounting filesystems.  There is a couple solutions as i see it:
> > > 
> > > 1. move tput from /usr/bin to /bin in the terminfo-bin package
> > > 2. fall back to hardcoded ansi control characters (may not work on some
> > > strange terminals)
> > > 3. other solution...
> > > 
> > Why are we using ansi control characters?
> 
> In order to beautify the boot sequence (right-aligned success/failure
> indications, highlighted failures, etc.).
> 
Are these just adding random stuff to each initscript, or is this some
kind of wrapper around them to print the messages?  If the latter, isn't
it rather late in the warty process to be doing this kind of change and
aren't we going for usplash in hoary?

Scott
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