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 +1 Moreover, IIRC, some key files in FreeBSD own cluster had been archived by RCS...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_at_FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck_at_rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Mon Oct 07 2013 - 22:59:04 UTC
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