[rancid] Re: Creating RANCID Subgroups

[john heasley]

Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:48:40PM -0500, Baird, Josh:
> Could someone give me some hints on how to create SUB-GROUPS within Rancid?
> I found some old clues on the list about using this syntax:

there is no such feature.  if it works at it is by pure luck.

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> LIST_OF_GROUPS="company/router company/switch, etc"
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> This does work to some extent.. rancid-cvs creates the repositories, but it
> breaks several other scripts (rancid-run, etc).  They take the "/" literally
> when writing to /tmp etc (it tries to write to /tmp/company/bleh, not
> /tmp/bleh).  Does anyone know how to properly support sub-groups, or how to
> properly mod RANCID to be able to support this?

afaict, there is little value in such a feature.  just use company_switches

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> I am using RANCID 2.3.2a9.
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> Thanks,
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> Jjosh
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