On 06/25/2012 09:16 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Arno Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury@xxxxxxxxx> 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)$"
will help you find any pacnew files you have on your system, I usually
use this in case I left over some when I did the merge and didn't
delete the file after.
Regards
Leonidas
Just installed pacmatic and did my first *$pacmatic -Syu*. Not bad
indeed. TY for the pointer.
I do think I am ready now to keep my pacman files updated with vimdiff.
There are not so many shortcuts to learn indeed, and finally found it
less scary for a beginner than vim
