[arch-general] merging files from pacnew

[Leonidas Spyropoulos]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Arno Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/25/2012 06:55 AM, gt wrote:
> I couldn't find any doc about pacdiff.
> I manually merged all my pacnew files using oldschool diff and a text
> editor. Not very conveniant, but it did the job.
> Now playing finally with Vimdiff, as there is a lot of good doc. Even if I
> am lost with all these keyboard commands, I like the dual screen interface,
> and think I will stick to it. I will maybe add an entry in the *Pacnew and
> Pacsave* *files*, as I think a list of most used shortcuts could be
> explained.
>
> TY for all your advices.

Dear Arno,

It's good that you find your way of dealing with pacnew files. Please
take a look at the wiki page
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacnew_and_Pacsave_Files
And the forum link posted at the end of the wiki.

Another helpful tool is pacmatic
(https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacmatic#Consider_Using_Pacmatic)
It automatically informs you if pacman created any pacnew files that
you have to deal with.

A command like the:
locate -e --regex "\.pac(new|orig|save)$"
will help you find any pacnew files you have on your system, I usually
use this in case I left over some when I did the merge and didn't
delete the file after.

Regards
Leonidas

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