merge custom files to new Gentoo system

[Vieri]

Hi,

I have quite a lot of custom files - mostly config files for etc but also other dirs as well as some binaries - I would like to merge to a new system.

I'm placing them all in ./overwrite/ so I have a structure similar to:

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./overwrite/etc/apache2
./overwrite/etc/pam.d
./overwrite/usr/local/

I can have both text files (usually config files) and binaries.

I can then do this:

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rsync -avb --suffix=.custom ./overwrite/ /

I don't think rsync can generate the diffs for me.
So at this point I'd probably need to search / for all the text files ending in .custom (or whichever suffix I used) ignoring the binaries and running "diff" on $file.custom and $file.
I was thinking of placing each diff in the same dir where $file is and naming it ._cfg$file (or whichever format is valid) so that I could then simply run dispatch-conf to interactively check and merge the changes.
I like the way dispatch-conf works, and I was wondering if I could use it for this.

Has anyone already done this?
Any suggestions or alternatives?

Thanks

[Banana]

rsync is capable of listing and comparing:
https://serverfault.com/questions/50600 ... -directory
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... irectories

But in your custom case, creating two files and comparing them would be easier.