Only source configuration files that end with the `.conf` extension?
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In T275#4134, @nrgaway wrote:

XXX: @Patrick, do your scripts ignore backed up files in directories such as /etc/whonix_firewall.d.... If not, maybe consider using a standard extension of .conf and only include those?

Files that end with ~ are ignored (backup files by many editors). Files that end with .dpkg-* are ignored (file names used by dpkg conflict resolution). So you could rename these files for example to .dpkg-nouse.

Do we want to rename all the config files to include a .conf extension and then only source those? Any opinions?

Existing documentation:
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Whonix_Configuration_Files

The config folder sourceing code for whonix-gw-firewall be viewed here:
https://github.com/Whonix/whonix-gw-firewall/blob/master/usr/bin/whonix_firewall#L27
https://github.com/Whonix/whonix-gw-firewall/blob/5ebca43416269a5fd42c98a80af1b0b3d38adecf/usr/bin/whonix_firewall#L27

Others for whonixcheck etc. look similar.

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Mentioned Here: T503: have sane built-in defaults even if config files are non-existing
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Only source configuration files that end with the '.conf' extension.

Thanks to @nrgaway for the suggestion!

https://phabricator.whonix.org/T286

Can you please check the onion-grater (Control Port Filter Proxy) and sdwdate commits? @troubadour?

https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/commit/1340726a83e5e02fe5e355cd20620d04335024c4

Since T503 is not yet implemented, Whonix 12 -> Whonix 13 are currently broken because of uwt. whonix-repository and tb-updater fails closed because the moment it uses gpg, /etc/uwt.d/30_uwt_default.conf does not exist, which results in "gpg" (actually uwt) failing. The solution I will be attempting is to make uwt also work with built-in defaults (part of T503).

https://github.com/Whonix/uwt/commit/651d2af8417fb0b7f77a88493a37935972ed444b

In T286#8987, @Patrick wrote:

https://github.com/Whonix/uwt/commit/651d2af8417fb0b7f77a88493a37935972ed444b

Works.

https://github.com/Whonix/sdwdate/commit/0a0436b2de152ca13445c368fbd7cb95d339c75a

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