Dealing with pacnew files

[SGS]

Use

 ╭─sgs@i3 in ~ 
 ╰─λ alias | grep pacdiff
alias pacdiff 'sudo -H DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff'

=

sudo -H DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff

in terminal.

You got this to check

Search in forum or ask if you are not sure what to merge. Don’t hope to get a copy and paste answer.

Never use automatic. Please.

pacman/Pacnew and Pacsave - ArchWiki

Or use

Pacman 6 got released: Requires manual intervention

I'll post this here in case it's useful to people. I use this as a "safe" way to graphically merge: #!/usr/bin/bash set -euo pipefail for i in $(/usr/bin/pacdiff --output); do echo "Merging $i ..." SUDO_EDITOR=/usr/bin/meld /usr/bin/sudo -e "$i" "${i/.pacnew/}" done (And yes, you can replace meld with kompare. ) On the other hand, if you don't have sudo but do have gvfs, then: #!/usr/bin/bash set -euo pipefail for i in $(/usr/bin/pacdiff --output); do echo …