Hello Paul,

Here is a patch against apkg to add a -r option which takes a diff between
saved and running config.
Is this the kind of stuff you thought of ?

Regards,
Cedric

2006/9/8, Cédric Schieli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hello Paul,
>
> Basically, apkg.mergefile gives you a "pre-merged" diff between 2 files,
> i.e. an hybrid format between the full file and a diff -u (to allow easy
> edition)
> apkg.merge let one choose between one version of a file or the other or
> edit the "pre-merged" version of both
> apkg -u uses apkg.merge for every file which have changed between old
> distrib .lrp and new distrib .lrp and also between old distrib .lrp and
> running config
> it is really an upgrade utility only and won't be useful in your case
>
> your suggestions are really interesting and could be implemented in a way
> similar to apkg -u
> I will take a look
>
> Regards,
> Cedric
>
>
> 2006/9/8, Paul Traina < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I'm going to try to pound out something to do this, unless someone
> > tells me that there's already a better way of doing it.  I don't quite
> > understand apkg.merge yet so I'm still scratching my head on how to do
> > it most efficiently.
> >
> > I would like some functionality that would generate a diff -u file of:
> >
> > 1) The current running configuration vs. the current saved configuration
> >    in configdb.
> >
> >    "What changes am I about to make before I save the configuration?"
> >
> > 2) The current saved configuration vs. the distribution .lrp
> > configuration.
> >
> >    "What makes this router special?"
> >
> >    I realize that configdb carries all changed files, but I want to know
> >    what config changed, not just which files changed.  That way I can
> >    keep archives of config changes of all of my machines on a central
> > host
> >    and quickly see if someone did something stupid to the network.
> >
> > Is anyone (hopefully) already working on adding that functionality to
> > apkg?
> >
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