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akurashy

Member

Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 75

Merging configuration files?

I had the same problem with http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47476
but then I noticed that I have several .pacnews in my /etc , what are the best practices to update/merge them all ?

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Merging configuration files?

This was already discussed in another thread (at least one).
I suggest using vimdiff or pacdiff from pacman-contrib package in community.
But you need to know vim

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wain

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From: France

Registered: 2005-05-01

Posts: 289

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Re: Merging configuration files?

use yaourt -C
Next release should contain a mecanism for auto merging config files

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