tracking changes to a configfile for a given application
I'm preparing to reinstall my server.
To document the whole process, i would want to know what the differences
are between the standard config files for an application when it was
installed and the current config files. In other words i want to see the
changes i made to a config file to track my settings for a given
application.
As i said, this can be handy to document an app but even more so since i
never install a newer config (or never try to) when upgrading a program.
This way, there's a good chance that i have missed interesting new
features for a program.
So when reinstalling the server, i'm going to do that from scratch,
install the apps, one by one, and then make the changes i did while
leaving the rest to the defaults so i end up with the lastest config
files but with my changes. (That's why i don't want to simply restore
the configs)
Is this possible and if so, how could i do this?
Thanks,
Benedict
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Benedict Verheyen Debian User
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