[oe] [PATCH] base-files: beagleboard: profile: use nano

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Thu Aug 19 21:02:17 UTC 2010


On 08/19/2010 02:08 PM, Jason Kridner wrote:
> If nano is available and EDITOR isn't otherwise set, then use it.
> Advanced users who would prefer vi will know how to set EDITOR anyway.
> I can clearly see myself being frustrated typing 'export EDITOR=vi'
> every time I start a BeagleBoard test ramdisk image, but better me have
> that than to try to explain to someone fresh how to use vi.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Kridner<jkridner at beagleboard.org>
> ---
>   recipes/base-files/base-files/beagleboard/profile |   41 +++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 recipes/base-files/base-files/beagleboard/profile
>
> diff --git a/recipes/base-files/base-files/beagleboard/profile b/recipes/base-files/base-files/beagleboard/profile
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..7b1cf52
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/recipes/base-files/base-files/beagleboard/profile
> @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
> +# /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
> +# and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).
> +
> +PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
> +# EDITOR needed for packages like cron
> +if [ "$EDITOR" ]; then

You sure you don't want this test instead?
   if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then

Otherwise, you'll be overriding some guy's choice and never defining
it for those who haven't


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