Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:11:25 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12 Message-ID: <8112531f-ef4b-efee-4667-1dea1fd12428@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20160911133804.a7j7p3x2viqzcpec@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <20160911133804.a7j7p3x2viqzcpec@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On 9/11/16 6:38 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > hi, > > For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt > before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from FreeBSD > 12. > > GNU rcs is a GPLv2 software with newer version being GPLv3 preventing any > updates/fixes. > > From previous discussions there were issues that has been raised in previous > attempts: > - ident(1) is still useful given we still have Keywords in our sources. It has > been replaced by a BSD Licensed version (enhanced to improve compatibility > with Subversion Keyword) for FreeBSD 11. So that tool will remain in base > after removal of GNU rcs. > - etc-update uses merge(1) from GNU rcs, this has been changed in head to use > diff3 instead. > - rc.subr allows to use rcs for the backup file functionality. This > functionality is off by default as such I plan to make a warning if rcs is not > installed and recommand to install rcs from base (or if noone claim using the > feature I will just remove the functionality and only keep the default > behaviour aka keep one backup copy). > - people uses rcs to handle configuration files in /etc for example. for those > multiple compatible alternatives are available in ports: > * rcs57: a copy of the latest version of GNU rcs in base before removal > (GPLv2) > * rcs: latest GNU rcs version (GPLv3) > > I haven't gone the direction of importing OpenRCS (BSD licensed version from > OpenBSD) as it needs way more work to be 100% compatible with latest version of > GNU rcs. > > How to proceed: > - First turn off GNU rcs by default for a couple of month. > - Totally remove GNU rcs if no blockers has been raised. > > Best regards, > Bapt \o/ -Alfred
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