Using pacdiff

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Hello.

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    serial: <superuser required>
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Battery:
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  Device-2: Alcor Micro HP Webcam-101 type: USB driver: uvcvideo
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Sensors:
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  used: 2.71 GiB (36.1%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0 Packages: pacman: 1653 lib: 371 Shell: fish
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Garuda (2.5.4-2):
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And I used pacdiff for the first time. Results follow.

sudo pacdiff --find
[sudo] password for arthur:
==> pacnew file found for /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
:: (V)iew, (S)kip, (R)emove pacnew, (O)verwrite with pacnew, (Q)uit: [v/s/r/o/q] o
renamed '/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew' -> '/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist'
==> pacnew file found for /etc/sudoers
:: (V)iew, (S)kip, (R)emove pacnew, (O)verwrite with pacnew, (Q)uit: [v/s/r/o/q] o
renamed '/etc/sudoers.pacnew' -> '/etc/sudoers'

Then I ran garuda-update and got no merge warnings.
My question . Is this the right thimg to do? I am an arch newby btw

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What you should with each file depends totally on what the file is.

The first file is your mirrorlist. Overwriting your mirrorlilst with a default file is probably not the right option. You should probably resort your mirrors to fix that.

The second is sudoers. If you can any custom sudo changes in there, you overwrote them. If not, no big deal either way.

In general, if you are going to overwrite a file, you should understand why you are overwriting it and not do it blindly.

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Also worth reading:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave

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Thanks for the heads up. Garuda-update rebuilt my mirror list for me so I dodged a bullet there.

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Thanks also. Thats where I read about pacdiff , knowing just enough to be dangerous lol

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You can also explore meld once installed you can issue sudo DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff to manage .pacnew files.

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I have just installed meld and looks promising. I have historical .bashrc files I can test it out on. And thanks for the tip.

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Make an alias :slight_smile:
alias pacdif=‘sudo DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff’

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For the amount of times I use it...I just type it out. :hugs:

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This was actually a helpful thread for me... I kept seeing the .pacnew messages during my upgrades and had been meaning to learn more about what they were but hadn't done so, yet. So it seems like something easy to take a look at and try to handle the merge conflicts to get rid of those messages.

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Hi , same here tho everytime I got mirror timing out I used refresh mirrors in garuda assistant. So when i did a pacdiff that was one of my merge items , which I probably shouldnt have overwritten, but running garuda update in terminal twice seemed to fix any issues and restored my mirrors plus no merge nags, Just so you know lol
P.S. Asbackup. I have a copy of every mirror in the world as backup asonce somehow my mirrorlist got itself empt[ed out. I put about 20 Canadian mirrors in the file and boom. It worked. I almost sprained my shoulder patting myself on the back.

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The Canadian mirrors seem a little slow to update, the US mirrors seem to update about 6 hours sooner but the end result is the same.

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