rcs is gone?

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Julian Elischer wrote:

> > > Or do you really only run the base OS and no other software on your
> > > systems, without any of your own code or any customisation?
> > We install from the base release ISO images burned on DVDs.
> > 
> > We are physically air-gapped from the internet, none of the "end users" of
> > the system have access to USB ports, and there are no electronic devices
> > allowed into the development shop.
> > 
> > We have a scheme for bringing in software from /usr/ports, but it is
> > painful.  And those ports can't necessarily walk on to all the systems in
> > the shop.  (I don't make the rules.  Suffice to say the company is very
> > paranoid about their code getting out into the wild.)
> > 
> > Having RCS in the base system is very useful.  We use it to track changes to
> > bits of /etc on the machines where we don't do wholesale customizations.
> > (Those ones get git, but they also get an install of /usr/ports with a fully
> > populated /usr/ports/distfiles.)
> > 
> > So if nuking RCS is a case of "I don't use it," ... we do.
> 
> +1

Moreover, IIRC, some key files in FreeBSD own cluster had been archived by 
RCS...


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