Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 00:47:43 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Brewer <brewer.doug@gmail.com> Cc: NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current list <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Subject: Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS Message-ID: <46E9A948-9D19-4ED6-AB4E-03CFDD5B92A0@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAG0V13Reytk-uaa%2B7j_a-0mNW1AJ2CRyxio8MmfGUhhoxmnMWg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG0V13Reytk-uaa%2B7j_a-0mNW1AJ2CRyxio8MmfGUhhoxmnMWg@mail.gmail.com>
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> Il giorno 08/mag/2015, alle ore 00:26, Doug Brewer <brewer.doug@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 04:18:38PM -0700, NGie Cooper wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org <mailto:pfg@freebsd.org>> wrote: > > > Hello; > > > > > > On 05/07/15 14:56, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > >> > > >> On Thu, 7 May 2015, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > >> > > >>> Unfortunately I don't use RCS enough (it looks like I should though) so > > >>> I am not in a good position to take the next step and deal with any > > >>> fallout it may produce. > > >> > > >> > > >> If we can have a build-knob to disable GNU RCS and enable the new one I > > >> will happily twist up the new version and hammer on it. > > >> > > > > > > Yes, that's usually the next step in the process. It is a little bit messy > > > because > > > there is a WITHOUT_RCS option and openrcs doesn't have rcsfreeze (and > > > perhaps something else that we don't use). > > > > > > I really want to check out first if there is some strong opinion against > > > OpenRCS. Perhaps someone that has used it before and thinks it is a > > > bad idea. > > > > > > It looks like there are voices against it, so those have to be addressed > > > first. > > > > Setting WITHOUT_RCS also breaks etcupdate (the tool requires rcs > > bits); check with jhb first to make sure that OpenRCS works with > > etcupdate. > > Confirmed. Pedro, are you also willing to fix fallout as Xin Li pointed out? > If not, please revert, thanks. I haven’t committed anything to base so there’s nothing to revert (?). Pedro. >help
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