[rancid] Re: cvs issues after migration

[Mike Ashcraft]

The simple answer is that Rancid uses the CVS client to keep track of versions.  

The versions in your CVS repository do not match those in the rancid/var/<GROUP>/configs/CVS directories.  If everything was setup properly in the migration, this can be fixed by go into each rancid/var/<GROUP>/configs directory and running 'cvs update' to bring those copies in line with the repository.

See the rancid faq and/or the CVS documentation for further info.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Wijnand Modderman
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 6:05 AM
To: 'rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net'
Subject: [rancid] cvs issues after migration

Hello all,

I am not particularly familiar with rancid, but after migrating rancid to a new machine (identical rancid and CVS version), errors keep showing up at the rancid logs.

Running rancid produces this error in the logs (amongst other similair ones for other modules):

Trying to get all of the configs.
All routers sucessfully completed.

cvs diff: Diffing .
cvs [diff aborted]: could not find desired version 1.23 in /export/rancid/cvs/ABC1/routers.down,v
cvs commit: Examining .
cvs [commit aborted]: could not find desired version 1.23 in /export/rancid/cvs/ABC1/routers.down,v

ending: Wed Mar 4 13:10:38 CET 2009


When I take a look at the file stated by the CVS error output, it seems like 1.21 is the HEAD:
# head /export/rancid/cvs/ABC1/routers.down,v
head    1.21;
access;
symbols
        start:1.1.1.1 rancid:1.1.1;
locks; strict;
comment @# @;

1.21
date    2008.11.18.13.13.32;    author rancid;  state Exp;


I tried to reproduce the error by doing a manual CVS checkout, change a file, and run the diff command as executed by rancid (cvs -f diff -U 4 -ko) which Works perfectly fine.

How do I debug from here? Is my CVS corrupt, or does rancid somehow keep track of the version it has to diff against?

Regards,

Wijnand
Linux Engineer



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