rcs is gone?

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 05:20:55 UTC 2013


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Diane Bruce <db at db.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 03:45:23PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> >
> > On 2013-10-07, at 2:53 PM, David Chisnall <theraven at FreeBSD.org> 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.
> >
>
> Hey we could imoort SCCS instead.
>
> http://sccs.berlios.de
>
>
> - Diane
> --
> - db at FreeBSD.org db at db.net http://www.db.net/~db
> _______________________________________________
>
>

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ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/schily-2013-07-29.tar.bz2


Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk


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