pacdiff
Maintenance utility for.pacorig
,.pacnew
and.pacsave
files created bypacman
. More information: https://man.archlinux.org/man/pacdiff.
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Review files that need maintenance in interactive mode:
pacdiff
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Use sudo and sudoedit to remove and merge files:
pacdiff --sudo
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Review files needing maintenance, creating
.bak
ups of the original if you(O)verwrite
:
pacdiff --sudo --backup
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Use a specific editor to view and merge configuration files (default is
vim -d
):
DIFFPROG={{editor}} pacdiff
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Scan for configuration files with
locate
instead of using pacman database:
pacdiff --locate
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Display help:
pacdiff --help
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