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On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 17:47:51 +0200 |
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tastytea <gentoo@××××××××.de> wrote: |
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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 |
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> > source? Is it something in github? Or a linux portal? Or Torvalds |
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> > private server? Or the gnu server? |
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> /usr/bin/test[1] was installed by sys-apps/coreutils[2], it's homepage |
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> is <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>[3], that links to the |
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> source code repository. |
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For me the first and most obvious place to look at is |
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/usr/share/doc/<package>/. Usually there is NEWS or ChangeLog file or |
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both. Which <package> it is you can get from man page (it is written |
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at the end in the "footer") or with command |
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$ equery belongs `which <command>`. |
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-- |
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Róbert Čerňanský |
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E-mail: openhs@×××××××××.com |
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