Hello,

Cyril Brulebois, le mar. 30 mai 2023 21:08:45 +0200, a ecrit:
> Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> (2023-05-30):
> > Apparently, this MR fixes the problem:
> > 
> >   https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/rootskel/-/merge_requests/8
> > 
> > Although this does prompt the question of why aarch64 has TERM set to
> > 'vt102' at this point, rather than 'linux'.
> 
> Glancing at the merge request earlier, my first (intertwined) questions
> were:
> 
>   1. Why is aarch64 special here?
>   2. Where does that difference come from?

I'm wondering what kind of console aarch64 is using: is that the Linux
virtual Terminal on an fbdev, or a ttyS console? Something else? The
kernel boot logs could be useful to determine that.

Samuel

>   3. Which other architectures might be impacted if we were to change
>      that?
> 
> > Also, I wonder whether there could be other circumstances when $TERM
> > is set to 'vt102' where this change could be problematic (I'm guessing
> > that the $TERM_TYPE checks deal with that, but I'm not sure).
> 
> Yeah, that's the same kind of questions one would get by combined my
> second and third questions…

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