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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: tastytea <gentoo@××××××××.de> |
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> Sent: Friday, October 7, 2022 8:48 AM |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands |
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> On 2022-10-07 17:25+0200 n952162 <n952162@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > Am 07.10.22 um 16:56 schrieb Grant Taylor: |
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> > > On 10/7/22 8:25 AM, n952162 wrote: |
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> > >> Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history |
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> > >> of linux commands? |
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> > > Some man pages have history of commands in them. |
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> > > Admittedly, it seems as if man pages on Solaris and *BSD (I have |
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> > > access to FreeBSD) tend to be better than Linux man page at this |
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> > > aspect. |
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> > Well, the man page, yes, would be a good indicator, but the commands |
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> > themselves? |
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> > Where does gentoo get the source to build test(1) or expr(1) or |
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> > date(1)? That's in some package, but where is the upstream source? |
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> > Is it something in github? Or a linux portal? Or Torvalds private |
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> > server? Or the gnu server? |
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> /usr/bin/test[1] was installed by sys-apps/coreutils[2], it's homepage is <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>[3], that links to the source code repository. |
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> Other ways to find out: |
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> - `equery meta sys-apps/coreutils` |
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> - `less $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo)/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.32-r1.ebuild` |
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> Kind regards, tastytea |
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> [1] `whereis test` |
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> [2] `qfile /usr/bin/test` or `equery belongs /usr/bin/test` [3] `eix sys-apps/coreutils` or emerge -s sys-apps/coreutils` |
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Note also that several of these may have copies built into your shell for speed and so that you can update the system utilities without an outage.
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"bash -c help" or "busybox --help" or similar to see the list.
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LMP |