On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 20:24, Andrew M.A. Cater <amaca...@einval.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 03:51:49PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On 3/24/25 15:32, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 02:51:14PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
[...] (= aggressive deletion to save readers' time) > I think this is yet another X-Y problem. [...] > Gene - just build another workable system as simply as you > practicably can Installing 'etckeeper' on that system, before making changes to any default system configuration, could be very helpful. [...] > and there's so many things you've done that no-one > can unravel what is just a Gene problem and what's a bug. > Simplify, simplify, simplify - and when you hit problems, tell us all > *exactly* what you did last. The history command is your friend here. Friends are a good idea. 'etckeeper' can be everyone's friend here. When Gene has a problem involving some config file, if 'etckeeper' is installed then we could ask Gene to show us the output of cd /etc && git log -p -- /etc/somefile which will show the original file content, plus a sequence of diffs showing what changes occurred subsequently, and when.
