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spiky25

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Registered: 2009-09-29

Posts: 134

how to merge pacsave and pacnew files ?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … save_Files

Please understand that I m french so I can t understand more than 75 percent of that wiki page and fast answers will just get me mising important knowledge that I will maybe need ...

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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: how to merge pacsave and pacnew files ?

Search for the package meld, read its man page, and try it out on some of your .pac{save,new} files. Run it as root or you won't be able to save changes. It will show you the differences between the files and you can choose which one to keep/delete/replace.

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spiky25

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Registered: 2009-09-29

Posts: 134

Re: how to merge pacsave and pacnew files ?

Corrected : My mistake was temporary folders too full ... (too much updates at the same time ...)

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: how to merge pacsave and pacnew files ?

spiky25 - you can also use http://forums.archlinux.fr/ .

spiky25

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Registered: 2009-09-29

Posts: 134

Re: how to merge pacsave and pacnew files ?

spiky25 - you can also use http://forums.archlinux.fr/ .

Archlinux fr as a big lack of common sense, let say that the community is more interesting here ...

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