Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 04:58:54 +0400 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rcs is gone? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310080457490.34891@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <52534C04.60909@freebsd.org> References: <29D748F4-5E38-4587-BC7F-0141234C2F62@orthanc.ca> <F9A84DDF-EC24-42F2-9B34-F5041946293D@orthanc.ca> <EBF54472-4DF9-42AB-9577-B7CEFFFFFA1E@orthanc.ca> <6CEFF9B8-A62A-4616-A0FF-BDDDE1027A7E@FreeBSD.org> <132C8A43-E822-49C3-A1EA-493A40449AD4@orthanc.ca> <52534C04.60909@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Julian Elischer 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 +1 Moreover, IIRC, some key files in FreeBSD own cluster had been archived by RCS... -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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