Subject: Re: othersrc (CVS, RCS)
To: None <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/11/1998 16:11:57
Jim Wise writes:
> Should othersrc just go away, now that cvs (the only package still in
> othersrc) is in the package system, or does it have a purpose which I'm
> missing?

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> You aren't missing much. It probably should be ditched.

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Curt Sampson wrote:
> 
> What about our patches to CVS to make it use the $NetBSD$ tag?

The changes are actually in RCS.  On that subject, I have
fairly simple changes against rcs-5.7 to allow the name of
the "Id" tag to be specified via an environment variable,
i.e.: setenv RCS_IDKW NetBSD

Anyone want the changes? (180 lines of diffs)