Bug#144680: boot-floppies: s390 chandev configuration fails due to lack of /usr/bin/editor
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
> In order to set up chandev parameters, modconf runs /usr/bin/editor. This
> does not yet exist in the base system when modconf is run from debootstrap,
> causing this option to immediately return to the menu. If you are quick (or
> running hercules on a slow system) you can see:
>
> /target/usr/sbin/modconf: /usr/bin/editor: not found
>
> This means that in many configurations, the network will not come up after
> the initial reboot because chandev parameters need to be specified.
>
> This could be corrected either by temporarily creating an editor link to
> nano-tiny, or (?) by re-running modconf from base-config.
Can't we also fix this by setting the EDITOR environment variable
correctly?
Or else, we could add to lazybox to run nano-tiny if called as
"editor".
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