Re: Time to remove sccs tags

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 10:41 PM Philip Paeps <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2023-11-22 13:21:27 (+0800), Robert Clausecker wrote:
> > Am Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 01:15:14PM +0800 schrieb Philip Paeps:
> >> On 2023-11-22 00:12:48 (+0800), Warner Losh wrote:
> >>> It's been 30 odd years since the last csrg release. They are no
> >>> more.
> >>>
> >>> At this point I think we can safely remove the few sccs tags that
> >>> remain
> >>> in
> >>> the tree. The data will be there in git if we ever need it.
> >>>
> >>> Comments?
> >>
> >> Long overdue.
> >>
> >> Since we're removing all these tags, should we also remove what(1)
> >> and
> >> possibly ident(1) from the tree?
> >>
> >> Removing what(1) should be non-controversial at this stage.  I can
> >> imagine
> >> some people may still be using ident(1) on extant Subversion systems.
> >
> > what(1) is part of POSIX, though I guess you can just install
> > devel/sccs
> > if you need it.
>
> I think the only reason we still have what(1) is because it was once
> useful to (help) identify the provenance of a file.  It wasn't very good
> at it in the past, and it certainly isn't very good at it now.
>

what is not going anywhere:

% what /boot/kernel/kernel
/boot/kernel/kernel:
FreeBSD 14.0-ALPHA3 amd64 1400097 #27 stable/14-n265023-7be29291845a: Sun
Aug 27 12:46:22 MDT 2023
%


> In 2002, Juli tried to resurrect SCCS for POSIX/SUS compliance.  It
> looks like the attempt was aborted before FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE though...
>
> Anyone who needs to tick this box in their standards compliance
> paperwork should simply install devel/sccs. :)
>

What also works with kernel core files.

Warner


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