[rancid] Re: The annoyance of whitespace changes.

[Lance]

Will,

A crude but functional method might be to remove all starting whitespace
on each line before you write to the file. That will make your cvs check
not a problem. :-D

-Lance

> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Will Miller <will.miller at gtri.gatech.edu>
> Date: Wed, October 17, 2007 10:28 am
> To: <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
> 
> 
> Hey guys, I'm a newcomer, so be gentle.
> 
> I've looked high and low for a solution to this, but to no avail-- hence 
> my adding to your inboxes.
> 
> So, here's my problem.  I have a device (specifically a firewall 
> services module in a 6509) being monitored by rancid.  Much to 
> frequently, though (on the order of a few times a day), I get config 
> diffs mailed to me that contain a bunch of changes like this:
> 
> @@ -500,9 +500,9 @@
>     port-object eq 27002
>     port-object eq 27003
>     port-object eq 27004
>     port-object eq 27005
> - port-object eq 27006
> +  port-object eq 27006
>     port-object eq 27007
>     port-object eq 27008
>     port-object eq 27009
>     port-object eq 27010
> 
> Note that the only thing that changed is the whitespace before the 
> command.
> 
> Try as I might, I can't figure out a workaround.  I tried modifying 
> control_rancid from "cvs -f diff -U 4" to "cvs -f diff -w -U 4".  This, 
> however, didn't change the number of emails coming in.  It still printed 
> the header with no diffs listed:
> 
> Index: configs/<IP>
> ===================================================================
> retrieving revision 1.240
> diff -w -U4 -r1.240 <IP>
> 
> (Yeah, that was revision 240... no, we don't change the config quite 
> that often.)
> 
> So, any of you have any ideas why this might be happening or, failing 
> that, how I might work around it?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> -- 
> Will
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