On 2018-06-17 12:42, Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 06/17/2018 12:17 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > What happens to files within the scope of CONFIG_PROTECT if I don't > > execute dispatch-conf or any similar thingy? I have found the > > confusion the latter tool generates completely unsurmountable.
> I think the side-by-side merger is very easy for small changes. Most > of the time I press z because I don't need the new changes. It's not the merge step itself (sdiff) that is confusing, it's what dispatch-conf does afterward with the result. When you used it the first time, did you understand what "zap new" means? And yes, I was driven to ask this after I got an update that wasn't "small". > find /etc/ -iname '._cfg*' > > Or what dispatch-conf does: > > find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*' ! -name '.*~' ! -iname '.*.bak' -print Thanks for this information. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
