System Configuration

Dealing with system configuration after upgrades

MocaccinoOS Desktop and Micro automatically protects /etc from overwriting user-override changes. Although, upgrades might require to overwrite and upgrade specific default configuration. The mos cli embeds a config-update tool which is compatible with etc-update and dispatch-conf.

To show a summary of the config changes that requires merging:

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$ mos config-update check
Files with unmerged config files: 1
- /etc/test/foo (2 unmerged config files)

Merging configuration

To merge configurations interactively, run:

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mos config-update update

To check the configuration of all the files, 1-by-1, run:

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mos config-update update -a

Auto-merging

It’s possible to auto-merge configurations automatically with:

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$ mos config-update update --interactive=false
Last modified August 27, 2024: Update desktop_environments.md (009b061)