UPDATE-CONF(8)

💅 update-conf — UPDATE-CONF(8) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the UPDATE-CONF(8) page from the System Manager's Manual — it's giving “let's update your config files together, no cap.” 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

update-conf — interactively update configuration files. literally the cute little helper that walks you through changed configs. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

update-conf [-a] [-h] [-i] [-l]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: update-conf finds all &.apk-new files under /etc, compares them with the installed versions, and interactively prompts the user for each changed file. one-by-one energy, fr fr. 💅

For each file, the user can quit, skip, show a diff, edit the new file, delete it, or replace the installed version. that's the whole menu, bestie — no secret extra lore. 🫶

Unchanged files (not modified by the user and not listed in lbu status) are updated automatically. slay, less prompting. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -a, --all — select all updated files, including unmodified ones. 💖
• -h, --help — display usage information and exit. iconic.
• -i, --initd — automatically accept new init.d scripts. 🎀
• -l, --list — list updated files without prompting. lowkey useful.

🎀 INTERACTIVE COMMANDS 🎀

when it prompts you, here's the group-chat keypad, bestie:

• n — skip to the next file. 🙈
• s — show diff (using &$PAGER or less). ✨
• e — edit the new file (using &$EDITOR or vi). 💅
• v — Vimdiff old and new. 🔥
• z — delete the &.apk-new file. 💀
• u — replace the installed file with the new one. 👑
• q — quit. bye bestie. 🦋

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• 0 — Success. periodt. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

lbu(8), apk(8), setup-alpine(8) — go read these too, bestie. iykyk. 🫶

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> and others. iconic. 👑

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— Alpine Linux · 2026-06-09 · UPDATE-CONF(8) · and that's the cute little sign-off, bestie 💖✨