TIP Colorized Config Management

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[edit] Introduction

The output of etc-update and dispatch-conf makes it difficult to discern the original parts of the configuration files from the new parts. By colorizing the output, it is much easier to visualize the differences.

[edit] Setup

First emerge colordiff: 

# emerge -av colordiff

Or if you want to use KDiff3: 

# emerge -av kdiff3

[edit] etc-update

Now configure etc-update to use colordiff/kdiff3. Edit /etc/etc-update.conf and change the diff_command variable to the following:

File: /etc/etc-update.conf

for colordiff: 

diff_command="colordiff -u %file1 %file2"

for kdiff3: 

diff_command="kdiff3 %file1 %file2"
using_editor=1

[edit] dispatch-conf

The TIP dispatch-conf article details how to achieve the same with dispatch-conf.

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