On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 03:45:23PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > On 2013-10-07, at 2:53 PM, David Chisnall <[email protected]> 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. >
Hey we could imoort SCCS instead. http://sccs.berlios.de - Diane -- - [email protected] [email protected] http://www.db.net/~db _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
