Merge RANCID 3.2 (when released) including upstream git support

[dotwaffle]

This will take some time, with tens of thousands of changes.

Most of the changes are simple, but there are a few places where some serious tinkering will need to be done.

I'm aiming to do at least some of this during a week off I have booked at the end of April, with an eventual preliminary release in May/June 2014. I'll try and do the work publicly, it will be on the "integration" branch.

At the end, I'm hoping to have a serious of patchsets to be applied that can be passed back upstream. Very happy for people to lend a hand -- especially for RANCID device types that I don't have access to.

[samdoran]

I'd love to help with this. I don't have tons of experience with the code base but I'll gladly lend a hand wherever possible. Let me know what you need.

[dotwaffle]

Wow, an actual offer of support ;)

I'd recommend doing:

git checkout master
git diff origin/upstream

Then, when you've stopped swearing at the screen, see if there's anything that takes your fancy! I imagine a lot of it is an easy merge -- but I need to make sure the additional router types continue to work etc.

It'll be a long struggle, but I have a week off as of next Wednesday so that's when I'm planning on cracking on with it =) Feel free to start having a play on the "integrate" branch I've pushed (by doing "git merge origin/upstream") and we'll see how far we can both get!

Cheers!

[supertylerc]

It's been a while since this was updated. Is this still planned?

[dotwaffle]

I'll be honest, I don't really have the time for this at the moment. If someone submits a pull request, I'm happy to merge it. Otherwise, it's not likely to be done in the next few months as I'm seconded to Hong Kong until January and only have a Chromebook while I'm out here.

[supertylerc]

Thanks. I might make an attempt, but my skills at writing code (much less merging and debugging) are pretty minimal.

[tgreer]

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It's not that bad!

[dotwaffle]

Right, just imported RANCID-3.1.tar.gz -- the integration branch is now taken from current HEAD.

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So, that gives me a list of things to fix ;)

Annoyingly, it looks like some of the recent fixes I've imported have been fixed upstream and I've not noticed (in particular, the Fortigate patches) -- so it takes a bit more head scratching and merging/testing than I'd normally have to do.

Will start work on this "sometime soon"!

[dotwaffle]

In case anyone is wondering, I'm not ignoring this -- RANCID 3.1.99 (i.e. 3.2 beta) has git integration, so once that is finalised I'm going to integrate it into here.

As it does git a little differently (one per group rather than one in total) it's likely that what I'll end up doing is retiring this repo -- or, maintain it as a patchset pending inclusion into upstream.

[darkpixel]

+1 :)

[dotwaffle]

Ok, we have a bit of a problem.

3.2 has been released (technically 3.2.99 as well) which does git support in an entirely different way -- one per group rather than one per install. This is "the proper way" IMO...

What I'm tempted to do is merge as much as I can in, then have some kind of conversion tool which will rewrite all your git history so that all the commits contain the additional directory layer. I'd be interested in hearing what people want.

I have two days at a demoparty (currently sitting at NVScene in San Jose, CA) where I can have a crack at this, so (a year on from when I first promised) I might actually make some progress with this.

If you have strong feelings on this, speak now or forever hold your peace!

[tgreer]

I preferred your way

On 18 Mar 2015, at 22:25, Matthew Walster notifications@github.com wrote:

Ok, we have a bit of a problem.

3.2 has been released (technically 3.2.99 as well) which does git support in an entirely different way -- one per group rather than one per install. This is "the proper way" IMO...

What I'm tempted to do is merge as much as I can in, then have some kind of conversion tool which will rewrite all your git history so that all the commits contain the additional directory layer. I'd be interested in hearing what people want.

I have two days at a demoparty (currently sitting at NVScene in San Jose, CA) where I can have a crack at this, so (a year on from when I first promised) I might actually make some progress with this.

If you have strong feelings on this, speak now or forever hold your peace!

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[buraglio]

Having the option to choose either option is the proper way in my opinion. That said, there are a lot of caveats with RANCID 3 when it comes to adding customizations and additional support. They've attempted to make it more modular and more flexible, but in turn have made it significantly more complicated and difficult to implement. I struggled with adding my contrib stuff to it and finally just decided stay away from 3 until the docs are not as lacking and ended up attempting a change management system myself called CLAW (https://github.com/buraglio/claw) in python (which predictably has stalled out). I will fully admit that I may be a bit obtuse.