[Buildroot] [PATCH] vim: install /bin/vi as a relative symlink

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Jul 18 13:03:50 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:34:43 -0300, Carlos Santos wrote:
> Prevent creating a dangling symlink when vim is not present on the host
> machine. With BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR, just link to "vim", since they are
> on the same directory, otherwise link to "../usr/bin/vim".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos <casantos at datacom.com.br>

Baruch had already sent a patch with the same title/intention, but it
is no longer in the pending state in patchwork.

Could you clarify what happened, and which of the two patches is
relevant ?

Thanks,

Thomas
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