Re: incantation for etcupdate to just blow away all old things?

Reply: Dan Mahoney (Ports): "Re: incantation for etcupdate to just blow away all old things?"
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From: Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:35:52 UTC

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 04:11:17PM -0700, Dan Mahoney (Ports) wrote:
> Hey there folks,
> 
> In doing a bunch of updates on my 15 VM recently to get around some of the recent breakages, I haven't been fully religious about running etcupdate every time, and it's now complaining that I have some results from a prior merge.
> 
> The man page is *long*, and we have puppet manifests to alter the few things we care about from a stock system (mostly some sshd stuff).
> 
> Is there a simple etcupdate command that says "I don't care about fancy 3-way merges and diffs, please just blow my /etc back to stock and I'll correct it with puppet?"
> 

etcupdate revert file

-- 
Steve