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Ignore coredumpinfo.txt

Created by dave. Last edited by dave, 10 years and 266 days ago. Viewed 2,591 times. #1
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(2013-06-28)

Problem

Every time you run rancid against a suitably brain-dead cisco, it gives you a diff like this:

Index: configs/fw-asa5505.myco.local
===================================================================
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -U 4 -r1.14 fw-asa5505.myco.local
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
  !Flash: --#--  --length--  -----date/time------  path
  !Flash:   126  16275456    Jun 13 2009 18:08:58  asa821-k8.bin
  !Flash:   116  459         Jan 15 2013 01:37:56  dap.xml
  !Flash:    13  2048        Jun 13 2009 18:10:48  coredumpinfo
- !Flash:    14  43          Jun 28 2013 16:37:33  coredumpinfo/coredump.cfg
+ !Flash:    14  43          Jun 28 2013 16:54:41  coredumpinfo/coredump.cfg
  !Flash:   127  11348300    Jun 13 2009 18:11:28  asdm-621.bin
  !Flash:     3  2048        Jun 13 2009 18:16:32  log
  !Flash:    12  2048        Jun 13 2009 18:16:42  crypto_archive
  !Flash:   129  9526560     Jun 13 2009 18:16:56  csd_3.4.1108.pkg

Every time someone does a show run the coredumpinfo.txt file gets touched. Of course, rancid does a show run. Therefore, the diff.

Solution

$ hg diff rancid
diff -r 0abd4dbaa2ff rancid
--- a/rancid    Mon Mar 11 10:48:01 2013 -0400
+++ b/rancid    Fri Jun 28 13:32:00 2013 -0400
@@ -714,6 +714,11 @@
        next if (/dhcp_[^. ]*.txt/);

/s+(multiple-fs|nv_hdr|vlan.dat)$/ && next; + + # We don't care about the coredumpinfo.dat file + # that gets touched every time someone does a show run + /.*coredumpinfo.*/ && next; + ProcessHistory("FLASH","","","!Flash: $_"); } ProcessHistory("","","","!n");

This diff was against 2.3.6, so it might not apply to later revs.

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