[rancid] RANCID is incorrectly parsing my Cisco IOS Firewall, adding linebreaks, joining lines, etc

[heasley]

Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:17:35PM +0200, Per-Olof Olsson:
> Hello
> 
> Have seen diffs like this when vtp trunks change up/down state.
> 
> Formating is done by IOS  for "show vlan", so it will be hard to fix splited lines in rancid.
> You are not alone to dislike diffs like this.
> In many IOS versions it posible turn of all line wrapping by setting "terminal length 0".
> I think it's one way of make diffs from "show vlan" more readable.
> 

The code should not save show vlan output if the switch is not doing VTP
transparent, which is why I was asking if VTP was being used.

another option, for rancid 3.0, is just comment-out the show vlan command.

yet another option, for formatting, is to break-up each port member into an
individual line.  less compact, but more easily read diffs