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