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billodwyer

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Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 18

[Solved] Workaround/Fix for binaries being replaced after update

So in order to have vim replace vi with vim globally (ie. for when I'm using sudo vi) I did the following:

mv /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/vi.old
ln -s /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/vi

And similarly with the rename command:

mv /usr/bin/rename /usr/bin/rename.old
ln -s /usr/bin/file-rename /usr/bin/rename

This was broken by an update to core-utils, and I was wondering if there's any way around this? I don't want to stop updating, and obviously it's not a huge issue to run those four commands again, but just wanted to know if there's anything I can do to either automate these commands after an update to core-utils, or stop the binary being replaced?

Last edited by billodwyer (2017-03-08 16:51:34)

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,097

Re: [Solved] Workaround/Fix for binaries being replaced after update

Put the symlink in /usr/local/bin

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: [Solved] Workaround/Fix for binaries being replaced after update

There is also vi-vim-symlink in the AUR, which replaces core/vi

Out of interest though, why are you doing "sudo vi" if you mean "sudo vim"? Habit? Or do you want vim to behave like vi?

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billodwyer

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Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 18

Re: [Solved] Workaround/Fix for binaries being replaced after update

@arojas! Oh my God, I'm a moron. Thank you!

@WorMzy It's mostly just force of habit at this point, when I was using Ubuntu sudo vi didn't behave like vanilla vi does (it was close to, but not exactly vim), and I got used to it. Pretty lazy at this point I know, but I'm set in my ways

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: [Solved] Workaround/Fix for binaries being replaced after update

Why not just use aliases, that's what I do.

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ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,589

Re: [Solved] Workaround/Fix for binaries being replaced after update

Why not just use aliases, that's what I do.

$ alias ll='ls -l'
$ ll
total 48K
drwxr-xr-x 38 ayekat ayekat 4.0K 2017-03-07 22:57 dev
drwxr-xr-x  8 ayekat ayekat 4.0K 2017-03-01 08:46 media
drwxr-xr-x  5 ayekat ayekat 4.0K 2016-07-29 19:32 nodes
drwxr-xr-x 13 ayekat ayekat 4.0K 2016-11-28 09:27 rl
drwxr-xr-x  5 ayekat ayekat  24K 2017-03-08 00:09 tmp
$ sudo ll
[sudo] password for ayekat:
sudo: ll: command not found

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Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: [Solved] Workaround/Fix for binaries being replaced after update

I have roots ~/.bash_aliases symlinked to my own users so the above works in my case.

Last edited by Slithery (2017-03-08 20:22:22)

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No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
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ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

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Re: [Solved] Workaround/Fix for binaries being replaced after update

I have roots ~/.bash_aliases symlinked to my own users so the above works in my case.

Although... we are talking about putting stuff into /usr/local to work around one user not wanting to adapt and type `sudo vim` instead of `sudo vi`, so I guess this is about a single-user setup anyway.

For general (multi-user) setups, the cleanest approach would probably be a user-specific directory (e.g. ~/.local/bin) added to `$PATH`, and putting the symlink in there. Works with sudo, too. And has the nice benefit of only affecting your own user.

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eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: [Solved] Workaround/Fix for binaries being replaced after update

In a similar case, I have replaced /bin/sh with a symlink to dash.

I ensure it survives updates to bash, using a pacman hook as I documented on the ArchWiki dash page.

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