[ixpmanager] Diff (just for reference) of site-specific tweaks for compare-prefix tool

[Barry O'Donovan]

Rowan,

referenced this in the docs:

https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/wiki/Route-Server-Prefix-Analysis-Tool/_compare/9dec26f4ccf57b6bb47cb08f9a6c3a0c51f08980%5E...9dec26f4ccf57b6bb47cb08f9a6c3a0c51f08980

  - Barry

On 29/05/2015 09:27, Rowan Thorpe wrote:
> I am just emailing the attached git-diff here for reference - and it should
> obviously not be part of a pull-request - as it includes the site-specific
> tweaks I had to make to the hardcoded bits in the compare-prefixes perl-script
> for it to work with our (skinned) bird-configs. I send it purely as a helpful
> reference for you when you either:
>
>   1. abstract some hardcoded stuff into configurable strings/variables if you
>      even want to apply that effort for this perl script
>
>   2. more quickly spot the bits that need abstracting when rewriting in PHP
>
> Also, I realise there is an arbitrary line-in-the-sand at which you choose not
> to accomodate every config-style under the sun, and instead require uniform
> formatting in the templates - so that diff is useful only inasfar as you want
> it to be. The diff applies on top of the two minor commits I just
> pull-requested on github (in case you have conflicts when test-applying it on
> the present master, that is why).
>
> FWIW: Another gotcha I hit was that because we email ourselves diffs of
> bird-config changes from a cronjob for easy visual reference/history, we had
> multiple-line prefix-lists (with trailing comments) in our bird-configs for
> readability (to avoid mega-long diff-lines). To make this script work we had to
> change them to single lines to fit the `while (<LINE>) { regex }` logic, at the
> cost of readability of our diff-emails.
>
>
>
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Barry O'Donovan
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