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jauthu

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From: Moscow, Russia

Registered: 2010-02-01

Posts: 17

Config-files' update merging

Sorry if it's not the place.

What about keeping a filetree with "default" config-files, (e.g. in /var/pacman/etc/)?

So, while updating package we can make a diff and put it in e.g. /var/pacman/etc-merge, and then replace the file in /var/pacman/etc. Then user can look what have changed and apply this changes to his /etc(and then deleti the diff). It is possible now to do something like that manually, but maybe there is already some solutions? Idea is simple, but I don't know where to start.

And sorry for my english.

ethail

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-02-10

Posts: 225

Re: Config-files' update merging

IF you're talking about configurations changing of format or getting updated and producing .pacnew files:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … save_Files

there's a nice script for manage it using meld

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