On 07/25/2013 05:35 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
You might be interested to know that OSTree does that automatically: # ostree admin config-diff M group M fstab M gshadow M shadow M passwd M resolv.conf A vconsole.conf A .pwd.lock A passwd- A shadow- A group- A gshadow- A X11 A X11/xorg.conf.d A X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf # The way this works is that the default etc is shipped as /usr/etc, so we can always diff it versus the real /etc.
Ideally, you'd also have a third copy, the pristine version of the configuration file that was installed before the file was edited first. That way, you could run three-way diffs and clarify which differences are actual local edits, and which differences come from packaging changes.
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