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Melchi

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Registered: 2020-07-03

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[SOLVED] Permissions issue when merging pacnew files

Hello!

I'm new to (arch) linux and I'm quite happy so far.
Today I have merged my pacnew files for the first time. Using pacdiff and kompare I succeeded ultimately, but I had to manually change the permissions of the resulting files. Does anyone know, what settings I have to change in order to preserve the file permissions? Do I have to change something within kompare?

Thanks!

Last edited by Melchi (2020-08-28 07:58:44)

mpan

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Re: [SOLVED] Permissions issue when merging pacnew files

It seems kompare ignores the original file permissions to unconditionally sets them to 700. I see no option to change that. If you can’t find those, consider reporting this as a bug.

Meanwhile, if you seek a GUI merging tool, you may try extra/meld. It also seems to offer much more merge features. A hint: press shift or control to see more actions than just adding line. Meld screenshot

Last edited by mpan (2020-08-26 11:02:53)

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Melchi

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Re: [SOLVED] Permissions issue when merging pacnew files

That was exactly what I was looking for! Meld works great.

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Re: [SOLVED] Permissions issue when merging pacnew files

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).