The last several times I’ve updated filesystem
, .pacnew
files were created for /etc/passwd
, /etc/shadow
, /etc/group
, and /etc/gshadow
. My default approach for merging .pacnew
files is to use vimdiff
to edit the original and new files simultaneously. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work very well for /etc/passwd
and friends because they are databases, not configuration files.