Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:27:32 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: As far as I recall for Fedora (haven't used it in a while) what you download as a src.rpm is already patched the way Fedora has compiled it to make the rpm. I don't know about the others, but I assume all binary distro's would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:27 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:27:32 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: As far as I recall for Fedora (haven't used it in a while) what you download as a src.rpm is already patched the way Fedora has compiled it to make the rpm. I don't know about the

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:50:51 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: The idea of source rpm's is that they contain the pristine sources from the upstream authors, along with a set of patches that get applied when you compile the src.rpm package. So you will likely get inside the src.rpm package:

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 11:19 -0600, Raj Swaminathan wrote: thanks Iain, Winston and Willie for all your help. I was looking specifically for the coreutils package and did not know where to find it. aha, a little more information in the original email goes a long way :) Iain, i run gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-13 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 13 January 2006 05:40, Raj Swaminathan wrote: Can anybody tell me where i can obtain open source code for gentoo. Im particularly looking for code for programs in /bin and /sbin. I am on a project to find out how different distros implement a few of these programs. So far i have only

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-13 Thread Raj Swaminathan
Hi, thanks Iain, Winston and Willie for all your help. I was looking specifically for the coreutils package and did not know where to find it. Iain, i rungentooso i do have the patched versions of what i need, thanks. But from you've said Im just curious to know if patched versions of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-13 Thread Tom Martin
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:40:30 -0600 Raj Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody tell me where i can obtain open source code for gentoo. Im particularly looking for code for programs in /bin and /sbin. I am on a project to find out how different distros implement a few of these

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-13 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Friday 13 January 2006 21:14, Holly Bostick wrote: Raj Swaminathan schreef: Hi, thanks Iain, Winston and Willie for all your help. I was looking specifically for the coreutils package and did not know where to find it. Iain, i run gentoo so i do have the patched versions of what i

[gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-12 Thread Raj Swaminathan
Hi, Can anybody tell me where i can obtain open source code for gentoo. Im particularly looking for code for programs in /bin and /sbin. 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. Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:40:30PM -0600, Penguin Lover Raj Swaminathan squawked: Hi, Can anybody tell me where i can obtain open source code for gentoo. Im particularly looking for code for programs in /bin and /sbin. I am on a project to find out how different distros implement a few of

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-12 Thread Winston Messer
Raj Swaminathan wrote: Hi, Can anybody tell me where i can obtain open source code for gentoo. Im particularly looking for code for programs in /bin and /sbin. 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?

2006-01-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
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