On 2022-10-07 17:25+0200 n952162 <n952...@web.de> wrote: > Am 07.10.22 um 16:56 schrieb Grant Taylor: > > On 10/7/22 8:25 AM, n952162 wrote: > >> Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history > >> of linux commands? > > > > Some man pages have history of commands in them. > > > > Admittedly, it seems as if man pages on Solaris and *BSD (I have > > access to FreeBSD) tend to be better than Linux man page at this > > aspect. > > > > > > > > Well, the man page, yes, would be a good indicator, but the commands > themselves? > > Where does gentoo get the source to build test(1) or expr(1) or > date(1)? That's in some package, but where is the upstream source? > Is it something in github? Or a linux portal? Or Torvalds private > server? Or the gnu server? > >
/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. Other ways to find out: - `equery meta sys-apps/coreutils` - `less $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo)/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.32-r1.ebuild` Kind regards, tastytea [1] `whereis test` [2] `qfile /usr/bin/test` or `equery belongs /usr/bin/test` [3] `eix sys-apps/coreutils` or emerge -s sys-apps/coreutils`
