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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:
>=20
> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 04:18:38PM -0700, NGie Cooper wrote:=20
> >=20
> > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org =
<mailto:pfg@freebsd.org>> wrote:=20
> > > Hello;=20
> > >=20
> > > On 05/07/15 14:56, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:=20
> > >>=20
> > >> On Thu, 7 May 2015, Pedro Giffuni wrote:=20
> > >>=20
> > >>> Unfortunately I don't use RCS enough (it looks like I should =
though) so=20
> > >>> I am not in a good position to take the next step and deal with =
any=20
> > >>> fallout it may produce.=20
> > >>=20
> > >>=20
> > >> If we can have a build-knob to disable GNU RCS and enable the new =
one I=20
> > >> will happily twist up the new version and hammer on it.=20
> > >>=20
> > >=20
> > > Yes, that's usually the next step in the process. It is a little =
bit messy=20
> > > because=20
> > > there is a WITHOUT_RCS option and openrcs doesn't have rcsfreeze =
(and=20
> > > perhaps something else that we don't use).=20
> > >
> > > I really want to check out first if there is some strong opinion =
against=20
> > > OpenRCS. Perhaps someone that has used it before and thinks it is =
a=20
> > > bad idea.=20
> > >=20
> > > It looks like there are voices against it, so those have to be =
addressed=20
> > > first.=20
> >=20
> > Setting WITHOUT_RCS also breaks etcupdate (the tool requires rcs=20
> > bits); check with jhb first to make sure that OpenRCS works with=20
> > etcupdate.=20
>=20
> Confirmed.  Pedro, are you also willing to fix fallout as Xin Li =
pointed out?=20
> If not, please revert, thanks.


I haven=E2=80=99t committed anything to base so there=E2=80=99s nothing =
to revert (?).

Pedro.
>=20




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