On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 3:12 AM Andy Bierman <a...@yumaworks.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 12:50 AM Jürgen Schönwälder > <jschoenwaelder@constructor.university> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 02:13:11AM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: >> > On 30/05/2023 20.28, Jürgen Schönwälder wrote: >> > > It is unclear what "identical" means here. If two people extract a >> > > module from an RFC, they may not end up with identical byte >> > > sequences. So does white space matter when we talk about MUST be >> > > identical? What about comments? The problem is that the IETF still >> > > publishes YANG modules in RFCs instead of files. >> > >> > As for RFC vs. files, the mechanics of extracting of files from RFCs >> seems >> > to be well established, plus it is an IETF-owned cron job which updates >> > https://github.com/YangModels/yang/tree/main/standard/ietf/RFC -- so I >> would >> > (and I actually do) assume that is the normative source of byte-exact >> files. >> >> I have YANG modules that were extracted years ago using some version >> of smistrip of the past. Do you believe my files extracted back then >> are byte-by-byte equivalent to what some cron job produces on some >> github repo somewhere today? Do you guarantee that the software behind >> the cron job will never ever be updated causing it to produce >> something where white space may differ? >> >> > The rfcstrip tool has been adding extra '\n' characters to YANG modules > for years. > In fact, there is not even one YANG module on a repo somewhere that is a > byte-exact copy of the RFC version. > > I checked some recent YANG modules, and the extra newline problem has been fixed. I am finding a different issue where trailing whitespace in the author's YANG file on github is removed from the YangModels repo version. E.g. ietf-netconf-server@2023-04-17 This should be a normal non-issue, but the new proposal requires a new revision date every time a meaningless space is added or removed from the file. Not sure what problem that is trying to solve. /js >> >> > Andy > > > >> -- >> Jürgen Schönwälder Constructor University Bremen gGmbH >> Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany >> Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <https://constructor.university/> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> netmod mailing list >> netmod@ietf.org >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod >> >
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