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Date:      Sat, 10 Sep 2005 03:18:48 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT exclude
Message-ID:  <4322B308.90703@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050909195940.GA32217@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <200509091936.j89JaUkA061400@repoman.freebsd.org> <4321E5DC.6020704@freebsd.org> <20050909195940.GA32217@dragon.NUXI.org>

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David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:43:24PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
>>Speaking of which, would it be possible for someone who knows the right
>>magical incantations to disable this check entirely for security branches?
>>It's much easier for us if we don't add $FreeBSD$ tags, but repeatedly
>>toggling the exclude file seems rather silly.
> 
> This seems against the spirit of a security branch.  One reason we have
> the $FreeBSD$ tags so one can tell what source built a particular binary.

I see your point, but the number of people who would rely upon being able
to search for $FreeBSD$ tags is small -- and that approach won't work at
all for people who downloaded the patches from ftp.freebsd.org instead of
using CVSup.

Colin Percival


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