Hi Richard
To fix this issue, I also have another method. To touch empty .vimrc to
avoid "Failed to source defaults.vim" error
And the patch will like this
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_9.2.bb
b/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_9.2.bb
index e4c26d23f6..33cc481271 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_9.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_9.2.bb
@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@ PACKAGECONFIG += "tiny"
do_install() {
install -D -m 0755 ${S}/src/vim ${D}/${bindir}/vim.tiny
+
+ # Add ".vimrc" file to avoid "Failed to source defaults.vim" error
+ # For root user
+ touch ${D}/root/.vimrc
+
+ # For non-root user
+ install -d ${D}/etc/skel
+ touch ${D}/etc/skel/.vimrc
+
}
Is this method OK?
Zheng
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From: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2026 1:26
To: Zheng, Ruoqin/郑 若钦 <[email protected]>;
[email protected]
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OE-core][PATCH] vim-tiny: bugfix lack of defaults.vim
On Thu, 2026-05-28 at 10:06 +0800, zhengruoqin via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> When vim-tiny was used in image, it lacks defaults.vim file which will cause
> following error
> root@qemux86-64:~# vi
> E1187: Failed to source defaults.vim
> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>
> So add vim-common as RDEPENDS to provide defaults.vim file to fix this issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Ruoqin <[email protected]>
> ---
> meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_9.2.bb | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_9.2.bb
> b/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_9.2.bb
> index e4c26d23f6..b6ddded381 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_9.2.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-tiny_9.2.bb
> @@ -8,5 +8,7 @@ do_install() {
> install -D -m 0755 ${S}/src/vim ${D}/${bindir}/vim.tiny
> }
>
> +RDEPENDS:${PN} += "vim-common"
> +
> ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "90"
> ALTERNATIVE_TARGET = "${bindir}/vim.tiny"
Doesn't adding dependencies like this defeat the point of vim-tiny in the first
place?
Can we configure that out instead?
Cheers,
Richard
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