On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 17:47:51 +0200 tastytea <gen...@tastytea.de> wrote:
> 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. For me the first and most obvious place to look at is /usr/share/doc/<package>/. Usually there is NEWS or ChangeLog file or both. Which <package> it is you can get from man page (it is written at the end in the "footer") or with command $ equery belongs `which <command>`. -- Róbert Čerňanský E-mail: ope...@tightmail.com
