Re: rcs is gone?

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On 10/07/13 17:42, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 05:36:42PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>>>> So there's no version control in the base at all now?.. When
>>>> did FreeBSD decide to move away from distributing a usable
>>>> OS? Why not just distribute a kernel and a few bits that are
>>>> barely sufficient for the initial set up, and then make users
>>>> fetch everything from ports?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> svnlite?
>> 
>> cd /etc svnliteadmin create svn svnlite co file:///etc/svn . 
>> svnlite add rc.conf svnlite commit rc.conf
>> 
>> instead of: cd /etc ci rc.conf
>> 
>> really?
>> 
> 
> No, not really.
> 
> # mkdir local # svnadmin create ./local # svn import /etc
> file:///$PWD/local

There is a feature that is lacking from svn: the permissions is not
quite tightened up.  With RCS, for instance, a mode 600 file would
result in a mode 400 ,v file.  With subversion, everything is
dependent on the current user's umask.  So let's say the root checks
in master.passwd, with RCS, the resulting ,v file would be mode 400
but with svn, the local cached copy and the file in the repository
would be both world readable.

Of course, this can be worked around by chmod'ing all the toplevel
directories to 700 or group accessible but it's not quite convenient
and can be easily overlooked.

However, even when I use RCS pretty often, I don't think it's a good
idea to keep it in base system (actually I am supportive in removing
it from the base).  The version shipped with base was not touched for
many years and shipping it with base makes it hard to use a newer
version from ports.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij_at_delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
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