Hi Simon! On 3/16/20 12:31 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > Steps to reproduce: > > - Install a chroot/container > - Install busybox > > Expected results: > > - If a more fully-featured vi is installed (vim, vim-*, nvi, etc.) then it > provides the vi and view commands in PATH > - Otherwise, "vi foo.txt" runs busybox vi > - Ideally, "view foo.txt" would be equivalent to "busybox vi -R foo.txt" > (but this might require a two-line shell script wrapper or busybox code > changes to recognise view as a command, rather than just a symlink) > > - If a more fully-featured editor is installed (one of the above, or a non-vi > editor like nano, emacs etc.) then it provides the editor command in PATH > - Otherwise, "editor foo.txt" runs busybox vi > > Actual result: > > - If a more fully-featured editor is installed, we get the expected result > - Otherwise, vi, view and editor are unimplemented, even though busybox could > implement them > > For editor, busybox vi should probably be a higher priority than ed, but > a lower priority than any non-minimal editor. > > For vi, busybox vi should probably be a lower priority than any > separately-installed vi implementation, on the basis that if you installed > nvi or elvis-tiny or something, it's probably because you wanted to use it.
I think enabling vi in the busybox configuration is actually the best approach to address this problem as this way we continue to ship vi with debian-installer and at the same time get rid of the vim dependency which is regularly causing headaches when building debian-installer images for Debian Ports. It also seems that the maintainer of the vim package would like to get rid of vim-tiny which he currently only ships because of debian-installer [1]. Switching the vi implementation in debian-installer from src:vim to src:busybox would therefore make both parties happy, I would say. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/03/msg00246.html -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
