Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 15:45:23 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> To: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: rcs is gone? Message-ID: <132C8A43-E822-49C3-A1EA-493A40449AD4@orthanc.ca> In-Reply-To: <6CEFF9B8-A62A-4616-A0FF-BDDDE1027A7E@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>
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On 2013-10-07, at 2:53 PM, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> 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.
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