On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:28:38PM -0700, John Clark wrote:
> "Hanske;Stefan" wrote:
> > I don't think you need to compile all the stuff again, there must be
> > thousands of people who did that already.
>
> Well, while I agree that it may be a waste to recompile the world, I have
> had trouble hunting down various sources for some of the
> tools that I'm currently using getting my hardware up.
>
> For example, while I would like to use fdisk straight out of the
> binary box, I did need to see exactly what it was calling, to better
> understand my current 'scsi' problem.
fdisk lives in util-linux.
> What is my model here would be say the various *BSD distributions
> that do sort of have the source hierarchy following the
> eventual binary hierarchy. This of course has some amount
> of variability, but I have not found where in the linux world there's
> a similar sort of lay out to gzipped tar archives.
That works with *BSD because user- and kernel land are strongly bound.
Linux is different: each distribution uses a standard kernel, but is
free to use whatever userland sources it likes.
> In the Redhat world, it did take me a number of tries to get
> the sources to some particular tool that was found in the
> basic installation tool set. I think it was something like login... it's
> neither here nor there exactly which one it was, it was just
> difficult to find the source of what I consider to be
> pretty basic.
"rpm -qf /bin/login" will tell you that login lives in util-linux. Get
the srpm for util-linux and you're set.
IMHO using Debian on your workstation is ideal in this kind of
situations:
- Lookup to which package /bin/login belongs:
erik@arthur:/tmp> dpkg -S /bin/login
login: /bin/login
- Get the source package:
erik@arthur:/tmp> apt-get source login
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 796kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org testing/main shadow 20000902-3.1 (dsc) [673B]
Get:2 http://ftp.nl.debian.org testing/main shadow 20000902-3.1 (tar) [734kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.nl.debian.org testing/main shadow 20000902-3.1 (diff) [61.1kB]
Fetched 796kB in 1s (794kB/s)
dpkg-source: extracting shadow in shadow-20000902
There you go, the source is in /tmp/shadow-20000902.
If you don't have a Debian system, you can still use the packages
search engine at http://packages.debian.org/ . Use the "search
contents" field, type "/bin/login", click search, wait, now click
"base/login", and you'll get a pages with all information including the
links to the source files (right under the "go to download page" button).
Erik
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