cvs commit: CVSROOT exclude

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Sat Sep 10 03:32:41 PDT 2005


On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 03:18:48AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
C> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:43:24PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
C> >>Speaking of which, would it be possible for someone who knows the right
C> >>magical incantations to disable this check entirely for security branches?
C> >>It's much easier for us if we don't add $FreeBSD$ tags, but repeatedly
C> >>toggling the exclude file seems rather silly.
C> > 
C> > This seems against the spirit of a security branch.  One reason we have
C> > the $FreeBSD$ tags so one can tell what source built a particular binary.
C> 
C> I see your point, but the number of people who would rely upon being able
C> to search for $FreeBSD$ tags is small -- and that approach won't work at
C> all for people who downloaded the patches from ftp.freebsd.org instead of
C> using CVSup.

I don't agree that number of people who would use $FreeBSD$ tags is small.

Concerning patched on FTP: why we don't supply patches that change RCS Id?

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