From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 8 00:04:31 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE14EA2 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 00:04:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A3482FA6 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 00:04:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jre-mbp.elischer.org (ppp121-45-235-45.lns20.per1.internode.on.net [121.45.235.45]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r9804QPN034434 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 17:04:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <52534C04.60909@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 08:04:20 +0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rcs is gone? References: <29D748F4-5E38-4587-BC7F-0141234C2F62@orthanc.ca> <6CEFF9B8-A62A-4616-A0FF-BDDDE1027A7E@FreeBSD.org> <132C8A43-E822-49C3-A1EA-493A40449AD4@orthanc.ca> In-Reply-To: <132C8A43-E822-49C3-A1EA-493A40449AD4@orthanc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:04:31 -0000 On 10/8/13 6:45 AM, 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. +1 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >