Hello, Mike. On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 17:19:31 +0100, Mike Civil wrote: > On 14/06/2024 17:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Right now, I have a problem. Is there any convenient way I can get the > > older standard file contents back again, so as to be able to do this > > 3-way diff?
> Does etc-update or dispatch-conf not give you the option to selectively > update and/or to diff the file? In theory, yes. In practice, dispatch-conf just offers a single ~130-line long hunk, which is useless for distinguishing wanted pieces of code from old superseded code. As I say, what's missing is the old repository version, which would allow a diff3. Maybe I should submit a feature request to Gentoo's bugzilla. > Going forward it might be better to put your custom changes in a file > under /etc/bash/bashrc.d which won't then get clobbered by portage. Or something like that, yes! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).