About backupcopy and breaking crontab and edquota

[Norbert Tretkowski]

* Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> Le Lundi 14 Mars 2005 18:41, Matthijs Mohlmann a =E9crit=A0:
> > Add to /etc/vim/{vimrc,gvimrc}
> > autocmd /tmp/crontab.* set backupcopy=3Dyes
> > autocmd /tmp/EdP.* set backupcopy=3Dyes

> well, I'm not sure this has to be done in /etc/vim/{g,}vimrc but I thin=
k=20
> that'd be great
>=20
> moreover, I'm afraid users that have touched their /etc/vim/{g,}vimrc=20
> won't see that change go in their config files.
>=20
> maybe we should have some full vim tree under /etc/vim/ or at least=20
> some /etc/vim/vim.d/ where we can drop things like that.

A similar mechanism is already implemented:

,----[ /etc/vim/vimrc ]-
| " Source a global configuration file if available
| if filereadable("/etc/vim/vimrc.local")
|   source /etc/vim/vimrc.local
| endif
`----

> > Another option is to ask the users if they have still this bug
> > when using the current version in sarge.
>
> this has to be done before we close the bugs for real.

Agreed.

Norbert