Re: Command Line Versus Command Line

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 00:20 this Saturday (GMT):

On 8 Jun 2024 00:12:07 GMT, rbowman wrote:
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On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 23:53:57 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

I have had accidents with rsync, too. But it’s still a wonderful tool
that I wouldn’t want to be without.

 
It was on Windows so it wasn't rsync but our support people had a
similar tool. They would edit configuration files on the server and then
copy them to all the other machines. Tough shit if another machine had
been configured differently for some reason.

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See, the Debian installer has a procedure for dealing with this when
upgrading a package: it compares the config files being potentially
overwritten with the default ones from the old package being replaced; if
they match, they can be safely overwritten by the new package. Otherwise
you get asked what you want to do: leave your changes in place, or
overwrite them, or something else.
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But of course that only works for configs kept as text files, which can be
easily diff’d to identify changes.

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You can still theoretically diff any binary file?

A decent tool for that is vbindiff. There are some decent GUI binary differs as
well.

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