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Misbah

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help me merge profile and profile.pacnew.. over my head

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brebs

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Re: help me merge profile and profile.pacnew.. over my head

If you haven't edited /etc/profile manually, then just copy the .pacnew into it - no need to "merge" the changes.

Misbah

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Re: help me merge profile and profile.pacnew.. over my head

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brebs

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Re: help me merge profile and profile.pacnew.. over my head

$ grep -A2 backup /var/abs/core/filesystem/PKGBUILD
backup=(etc/fstab etc/crypttab etc/group etc/hosts etc/ld.so.conf etc/passwd \
        etc/shadow etc/gshadow etc/resolv.conf etc/motd etc/nsswitch.conf \
        etc/shells etc/host.conf etc/securetty etc/profile etc/issue)

That's why /etc/profile is "protected". Just use the new version.

mv /etc/profile.pacnew /etc/profile

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: help me merge profile and profile.pacnew.. over my head

only thing u need concern yourself with in this file is the PATH variable.

From what I know if those are not set correct some programs won't start because they won't know where to look. Because its not in your PATH.

Beyond that, I just overwrote the old profile.

Mr.Elendig

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Re: help me merge profile and profile.pacnew.. over my head

You should just mv the pacnew over profile. And if you need to set a custom $PATH or some other thing, create a profile.d/custom.sh and put it in there instead. (and make it a+x)

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Re: help me merge profile and profile.pacnew.. over my head

Why are we suddenly giving advise on a thread that has been dead for two months?

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