[rancid] Arista Spurious Diffs

[heasley]

Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 02:16:21PM -1000, Steve O'Brien:
> I have just started to deploy Arista switches in my mostly Cisco network.
> My first one that I added to Rancid is sending diffs every run:
> 
> Index: configs/switch
> ===================================================================
> retrieving revision 1.8
> diff -u -4 -r1.8 switch
> @@ -65,9 +65,9 @@
>   !Flash:        -rw-         568            Nov 2  2021  SsuRestore.log
>   !Flash:        -rw-         568            Nov 2  2021
> SsuRestoreLegacy.log
>   !Flash:        drwx        4096           Sep 15  2021  aboot
>   !Flash:        -rw-          18           Jan 10  2022  boot-config
> - !Flash:        drwx        4096           Jan 19 16:01  debug
> + !Flash:        drwx        4096           Jan 19 17:01  debug
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Does this filter it successfully?

diff --git a/lib/aeos.pm.in b/lib/aeos.pm.in
index d1722e55..684280a7 100644
--- a/lib/aeos.pm.in
+++ b/lib/aeos.pm.in
@@ -260,6 +260,8 @@ sub ShowFlash {
         # persist changes constantly if you're running ntp, so
         # skip its updates.
         /\spersist$/ && next;
+	# frequent timestamp changes
+        /\sdebug$/ && next;
 
 	# Scheduled commands can cause free space to constantly
 	# change.  Even the trick of summarizing the free space