svn commit: r345138 - head/share/man/man9

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 7:38 PM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
wrote:

> > I think maybe there was also a limitation on the
> (repo-replication-over-email?) mechanism that we used to use? That rings a
> very faint bell for me for some reason, even though I'm pretty sure it was
> dead long before I got my bit.
>
> CTM is still in use today, in a recent action to depricate it in base
> it was found that there are infact users, and users who wish to maintain
> it.  I do not know of CTM is impacted by this, that group would need
> to respond.
>

CTM  handles binaries just fine these days. We have dozens of binaries in
the tree already. In the 90s there was an issue, but that was fixed well
before we migrated to subversion.

Warner

>
> > -Ravi (rpokala@)
> >
> > ?-----Original Message-----
> > From: <owner-src-committers at freebsd.org> on behalf of Ed Maste <
> emaste at freebsd.org>
> > Date: 2019-03-14, Thursday at 12:21
> > To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes at freebsd.org>
> > Cc: src-committers <src-committers at freebsd.org>, <
> svn-src-all at freebsd.org>, <svn-src-head at freebsd.org>
> > Subject: Re: svn commit: r345138 - head/share/man/man9
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 14:55, Rodney W. Grimes
> > <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > > > Author: emaste
> > > > Date: Thu Mar 14 17:09:07 2019
> > > > New Revision: 345138
> > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/345138
> > > >
> > > > Log:
> > > >   firmware(9): remove uuencoded example
> > > >
> > > >   We can (should) just commit the binary files to the source tree.
> > >
> > > This change could use wider discussion.
> >
> > If you or others have a reason to prefer having uuencoded files in the
> > src tree I'll happily revert. I was aware only of CVS limitations as a
> > reason for uuencoding.
> That was only one of the reasons IIRC.
>
> > We have many binary files in the tree already (e.g. GIF PNG and JPEG
> > images, ELF and PE32 binaries, Berkeley DB files, and various
> > compressed formats). I count 430 uuencoded files in the tree, with 328
> > of those coming from libarchive and 64 from sys/*/dev/
>
> Why didnt you also count the "binary" files in the tree?
> Where are they?
>
> --
> Rod Grimes
> rgrimes at freebsd.org
>
>