From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 7 22:55:15 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144A62C5; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 22:55:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@db.net) Received: from diana.db.net (unknown [IPv6:2620:64:0:1:223:7dff:fea2:c8f2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED6422BBA; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 22:55:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from night.db.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by diana.db.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6471A2AA4A0; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:55:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: by night.db.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 91F051CC17; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 17:54:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 17:54:44 -0500 From: Diane Bruce To: Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: Re: rcs is gone? Message-ID: <20131007225444.GA31518@night.db.net> References: <29D748F4-5E38-4587-BC7F-0141234C2F62@orthanc.ca> <6CEFF9B8-A62A-4616-A0FF-BDDDE1027A7E@FreeBSD.org> <132C8A43-E822-49C3-A1EA-493A40449AD4@orthanc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <132C8A43-E822-49C3-A1EA-493A40449AD4@orthanc.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , David Chisnall X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 22:55:15 -0000 On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 03:45:23PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > On 2013-10-07, at 2:53 PM, David Chisnall 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@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db