[rancid] ignoring flash memory changes

[Eric Cables]

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?

-- Eric Cables


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Alan McKinnon <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
>
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