Bugzilla – Bug 1192655
view,ex,rvim,etc broken by libalternatives update to the vim package
Last modified: 2021-11-13 10:45:19 UTC
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/929735 updated the vim package to use libalternatives: $ ls -l /usr/bin/vim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 9 15:39 /usr/bin/vim -> alts $ alts -l snip --- Binary: vi Alternatives: 1 Priority: 20* Target: /usr/bin/vim-nox11 Group: vi, vim --- Binary: vim Alternatives: 1 Priority: 20* Target: /usr/bin/vim-nox11 Group: vi, vim view is a symlink to /usr/bin/vim: $ ls -l /usr/bin/view lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 9 15:39 /usr/bin/view -> vim Running `view` against a file exits 255: $ ls foobar foobar $ cat foobar viewing view $ view foobar $ echo $? 255 I suspect that the lack of an alts entry is causing this and these other vim executables are also affected: $ ls -l /usr/bin | grep -- '-> vim' lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 9 15:39 edit -> vim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 9 15:39 ex -> vim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 9 15:39 rview -> vim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 9 15:39 rvim -> vim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 9 15:39 view -> vim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 9 15:39 vimdiff -> vim As a side note `man alts` does not really provide sufficient info on how to use this system. I would attempt to set up a user config to confirm this is the issue, but the manpage doesn't say what config files are used or how to map one name to another program using `alt -u`.
I managed to find the libalternatives configs via the spec diff in the previously mentioned package update. Mimicking those updates locally: $ ls -l /usr/share/libalternatives/view total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 Nov 12 16:38 20.conf $ cat /usr/share/libalternatives/view/20.conf binary=/usr/bin/vim-nox11 group=vim, vi options=KeepArgv0 I can now run `view foobar` and get the file to open. This seems to confirm the issue is a lack of appropriate libalternatives configuration.
duplicate *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1192631 ***