reform-check reports some diffs and references to obsolete scripts in my config files. I don’t have any substantial changes to my config files and would like to take the newest version of the default configs checked by reform-check and overwrite my existing ones.
Do any of the helper scripts automate this process?
No. Every change has an effect in behavior and a helper script to automate this would be a lot of work and complexity for something which I think should be done manually so that you can make a conscious choice for each of the changes. Since I think that not many would use it, the script would then have bugs which would rarely be found (because only few use it) and because it would mess with system configuration it would have the very real risk of completely messing your system up or making you loose data. This is not motivating me to invest time into creating and then maintaining a script.
This reminds me of the situation from before system-image-v3. It would’ve theoretically been possible to create a helper script to automatically convert user’s systems from before to v3 but since this involves messing with the very diverse configurations that user’s accumulate over time and because of how much can go grow, the script was never written and the few users who wanted to migrate did it manually.
In the end, I think this is a question of human time and priorities. Currently, I think there are more important tasks which I still struggle to get done in Reform-land and writing a script like this is quite far down my list of priorities.
If somebody else would like to do it, I’d be happy to review the work of course.