Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-10-26, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Rich Freeman wrote: >>> If you use an x11-based merge tool then it will also refuse to attempt >>> an automatic >>> merge if X11 isn't available. (Obviously you can't actually run the >>> manual merge if the tool uses X11 and that isn't available.) >>> >>> >> I'd like to try a GUI based tool. Is that what you talking about? If >> so, name or what package has it? > At one point, I had one of my systems configured to use "meld" when I > picked "interactive merge" in the etc-update menu, but I've since gone > back to just picking "show differences" in the etc-update menu, then > manually running merge on the two filenames shown. With the > interactive merge option, I was always a bit confused about which file > was the destination and what happened after I exited meld. > > -- > Grant
I've tried etc-update and dispatch-conf and I can't figure out either one of them when it comes to merging. I'd like a GUI tool where I can click the one I want to keep with my rodent and then save. Like you, I get confused trying to select things and then have no idea if I'm about to royally screw something up. I end up doing a ctrl c, restarting update tool and zapping the new file and praying that didn't break anything either. I have the default settings so there may be a better way but I just don't know what. I sometimes wish there was a video showing different methods of managing config files and me picking what makes sense to me. I might add, a good while back I started doing updates in a chroot and then using -k on my main system. Since then, I don't see config updates hardly at all. I wonder if building in a chroot affects that. Dale :-) :-)
