[rancid] ignoring flash memory changes

[Alan McKinnon]

On 01/07/2013 01:09, Eric Cables wrote:
> I do the same: modify each parser to ignore various lines (such as
> timestamped items) -- is this the wrong method for ignoring certain
> config diffs?


I'd say it's the only way


> 
> -- Eric Cables
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com
> <mailto:alan.mckinnon at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 28/06/2013 00:18, heasley wrote:
>     > Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:39:31PM +0200, Alan McKinnon:
>     >> Rancid could really benefit from some kind of call-out mechanism
>     where
>     >> we can add our own local tweaks and keep them out of the main
>     code, but
>     >> unfortunately 2.3.x doesn't have this.
>     >>
>     >> Perhaps a worthy addition to the 3.0 series!
>     >
>     > What do you mean 'call-out mechanism'?  in 3.0 you can tell rancid
>     which
>     > module to include (need to add functionality to include multiple
>     modules)
>     > and tell it what function to use to parse the output.
>     >
> 
>     Yes, something like that.
> 
>     The problem I face is I've forked every parser script I use, and it's
>     always to add or remove entire commands or individual regexes. These
>     things work best when the regex definition is treated as data out of a
>     config, not as pure code
> 
>     I still haven't fully read the 3.0 code yet, so I could well be asking
>     for something you've already done
> 
> 
> 
>     --
>     Alan McKinnon
>     alan.mckinnon at gmail.com <mailto:alan.mckinnon at gmail.com>
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