vim Cookbook

Installs or compiles/installs vim.

Requirements

Platforms

• Ubuntu/Debian (source installs on Ubuntu 16.04 fail due to a vim bug)
• RHEL/CentOS/Scientific/Amazon/Oracle
• Fedora
• openSUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprises

Chef

• Chef 12.1+

Cookbooks

• none

Attributes

Default recipe attributes

• node['vim']['extra_packages'] - An array of extra packages related to vim to install (like plugins). Empty array by default.

• node['vim']['install_method'] - Sets the install method, choose from the various install recipes. This attribute is set to 'package' by default.

Source recipe attributes

• node['vim']['source']['version'] - The version of vim to compile, 7.4 by default.
• node['vim']['source']['checksum'] - The source file checksum.
• node['vim']['source']['dependencies'] - These are the non rhl specific devel dependencies for compiling vim.
• node['vim']['source']['centos_dependencies'] - These are the rhl and centos specific dependencies needed for compiling vim.
• node['vim']['source']['prefix'] - This is the path the vim bin will be placed, it's /usr/local
• node['vim']['source']['configuration'] - If you prefer to compile vim differently than the default you can override this configuration.

Usage

Add recipe[vim] to your run list or include the default recipe with include_recipe 'vim' in a recipe that is in your run list.

This uses the value of the attribute node['vim']['install_method'] which by default is package.

If you would like to install additional vim plugin packages, include their package names in the node['vim']['extra_packages'] attribute. Verify that your operating sytem has the package available.

If you would rather compile vim from source, as the case may be for centos nodes, then override the node['vim']['install_method'] with a value of 'source'.

License & Authors

Author: Cookbook Engineering Team ([email protected])

Copyright: 2008-2016, Chef Software, Inc.

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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