[rancid] Spurious up/down messages - locale & sort

[john heasley]

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.