Re: What to do about RCS/OpenRCS

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello;
>
> On 05/07/15 14:56, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 7 May 2015, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately I don't use RCS enough (it looks like I should though) so
>>> I am not in a good position to take the next step and deal with any
>>> fallout it may produce.
>>
>>
>> If we can have a build-knob to disable GNU RCS and enable the new one I
>> will happily twist up the new version and hammer on it.
>>
>
> Yes, that's usually the next step in the process. It is a little bit messy
> because
> there is a WITHOUT_RCS option and openrcs doesn't have rcsfreeze (and
> perhaps something else that we don't use).
>
> I really want to check out first if there is some strong opinion against
> OpenRCS. Perhaps someone that has used it before and thinks it is a
> bad idea.
>
> It looks like there are voices against it, so those have to be addressed
> first.

Setting WITHOUT_RCS also breaks etcupdate (the tool requires rcs
bits); check with jhb first to make sure that OpenRCS works with
etcupdate.
Cheers!