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On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 23:40 -0600, Raj Swaminathan wrote: |
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> Can anybody tell me where i can obtain open source code for gentoo. |
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If you're _running_ Gentoo it's easy, as you have to download most of |
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the source code to install it. However, given that you're doing this to |
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lots of distro's, I assume you're not installing each distro... |
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> Im particularly looking for code for programs in /bin and /sbin. |
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Ah, quite a lot of programs install things into /bin. Do you mean just |
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the "base" set of programs? then there's not much in there at all. |
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They're probably all in 'coreutils' or 'baselayout' (no doubt others |
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will give you more package names) |
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> I am on a project to find out how different distros implement a few of |
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> these programs. So far i have only been lucky with OpenSolaris and |
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> FreeBSD. |
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You should have luck with gentoo, as every gentoo mirror should carry |
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the source code. Go to http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml to |
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find mirrors, and then navigate to your.mirror/gentoo/distfiles where |
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you will find the source code (pretty much anything in there that |
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doesn't have a -bin in the name is source code for something :) |
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for example, coreutils-5.3.0.tar.bz2 or baselayout-1.12.0_pre10.tar.bz2 |
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However: gentoo does it slightly differently: Instead of downloading |
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the patched source code, as you would in, say, fedora, gentoo downloads |
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the original untouched source from the program's site, and applies |
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"gentoo" patches. |
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To find out the patches, without running gentoo becomes a little |
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trickier. I'd personally download a "portage snapshot": |
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your.mirror/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20060112.tar.bz2 (~20Mb), then look |
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at the directories in there: |
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/usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout |
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/usr/portage/sys-apps/coreutils |
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In each directory you will see a list of *.ebuild files, which are the |
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"rules" for building this package. |
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If you get this far and want me to keep going about ebuilds, just post |
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back to the list. |
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HTH, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them |
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is a match. |
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-- Will Rogers |
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