On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 2:08 PM Frank Steinmetzger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:28:01PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > <SNIP> > > In my experience with all distros I go outside the distro for this > > sort of issue. Put a copy somewhere, white a little script that > > does a diff on the files you feel are important enough and run > > a cron job hourly that looks for any differences. > > Isn’t that exactly what etc-update does? IIRC (my last Gentoo update was a > few months ago), I select one of the files, and it lets me view a diff in > vim (configurable) of my old version and the new one from the update. Then I > can either merge the two files right in vim, or elect to keep the new or old > file entirely. >
It might do most of that, if it's working. If no bugs have been introduced since the last time you used it, if the user has their eyes open and doesn't make a mistake. I do not know if it has an option to keep a copy somewhere safe, and again, I run multiple distros and like a solution that, for me, works on all distros. To each his own. ;-) (And shame on you for being 'a few months' behind on your updates) ;-)
