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 OpenSolaris and FreeBSD. > > Thanks, > raj
I recommend you check anything I say against other sources; I'm not a Gentoo expert. Gentoo is a source distribution. Nearly all packages installed are compiled from source. Gentoo fetches the source code from URLs supplied in the ebuilds located in /usr/portage and downloads it to /usr/portage/distfiles when you emerge a package. You'll probably want to start in /usr/portage/distfiles. Any source that you've downloaded and compiled through portage resides there until it's removed. However, it's possible (or maybe likely, I'm no expert) that not all of the source code for your system is in there. If you've used GRP packages, there would certainly be source missing from there, and if you installed with a stage 3 and then did not recompile everything, there would likely be at least some packages installed for which you don't have source. If you've installed any binary only programs, the binaries's package would be there but not the source for those packages. If you're looking for the remote source that is downloaded to be compiled on Gentoo, the URLs are given in the ebuilds for each package. I hope my explanation helps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
