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daniel.schmidt at wyo

Nov 22, 2011, 9:45 AM

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Spurious up/down messages - locale & sort

I really thought we had this one solved with the tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' but, as
it turns out, a dash is < or > digit depending if you locale is POSIX or
en_US.UTF-8. Cron runs as POSIX, so any manual updates have the
possibility of generating spurious up/down diffs. Unable to think of a
good solution, I instead uttered profane words and implemented a quick
solution.

$ diff -U 4 control_rancid.bak control_rancid

--- control_rancid.bak 2011-11-22 10:15:36.000000000 -0700

+++ control_rancid 2011-11-22 10:19:51.000000000 -0700

@@ -42,8 +42,12 @@

#

# control_rancid $GROUP

#

+# #*@& sort locale!!

+LC_COLLATE="POSIX"

+export LC_COLLATE

+

# print a usage message to stderr

pr_usage() {

echo "usage: $0 [-V] [-r device_name] [-m mail rcpt] group" >&2;

}

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heas at shrubbery

Nov 22, 2011, 12:59 PM

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Re: Spurious up/down messages - locale & sort [In reply to]

Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:45:59AM -0700, Daniel Schmidt:
> I really thought we had this one solved with the tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' but, as
> it turns out, a dash is < or > digit depending if you locale is POSIX or
> en_US.UTF-8. Cron runs as POSIX, so any manual updates have the
> possibility of generating spurious up/down diffs. Unable to think of a
> good solution, I instead uttered profane words and implemented a quick
> solution.
>

probably belongs in rancid.conf rather than control_rancid.
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daniel.schmidt at wyo

Nov 22, 2011, 1:18 PM

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Re: Spurious up/down messages - locale & sort [In reply to]

Yeah, that does sound like a better idea

-----Original Message-----
From: john heasley [mailto:heas [at] shrubbery]
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 1:59 PM
To: Daniel Schmidt
Cc: rancid-discuss [at] shrubbery
Subject: Re: [rancid] Spurious up/down messages - locale & sort

Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:45:59AM -0700, Daniel Schmidt:
> I really thought we had this one solved with the tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'
> but, as it turns out, a dash is < or > digit depending if you locale
> is POSIX or en_US.UTF-8. Cron runs as POSIX, so any manual updates
> have the possibility of generating spurious up/down diffs. Unable to
> think of a good solution, I instead uttered profane words and
> implemented a quick solution.
>

probably belongs in rancid.conf rather than control_rancid.
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