[rancid] Arista Spurious Diffs

[Steve O'Brien]

I patched the pm as heasley suggested and that seems to have worked, thank
you!
Andreas, I could not find an arrancid, did you mean arancid (arancid -
Alteon WebOS plugin for rancid)?


*Steve*




On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 2:52 PM Andreas Ott <andreas at h169.naund.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 02:16:21PM -1000, Steve O'Brien wrote:
> > 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!
>
> Coincidentally I fixed this earlier this week on one of our rancid
> instances.
>
> In the file 'arrancid' look for the section '# This routine parses "dir
> flash:"'
> and add the following line(s)
>
> +       # Ignore debug subdirectory
> +       /drwx.*debug/ && next;
>
> before it invokes the function
>         ProcessHistory("FLASH","","","!Flash: $_");
>
>
> Apparently newer EOS versions such as 4.27 are now frequently touching the
> debug
> directory in the filesystem.
>
>
> Cheers, andreas
>
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