Re: [gentoo-dev] Sources for the entire OS

[Kaarthik Sivakumar <kaarthik@clovissolutions.com>]

Peter Johanson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:42:30PM -0700, Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>I am not sure if this is the right list. -dev is for developers in
>>general or just developers working ON gentoo? If this is the wrong list
>>please point me to the right one. Thanks.
>>
>>Is there a way to get the entire sources for all of the base OS, not
>>just the kernel? Like in the BSDs, where under /usr/src you have the
>>entire source for the entire OS that you can build and install and you
>>will have a full OS. On my gentoo box, under /usr/src I only have the
>>linux kernel sources. Thanks.
> 
> 
> you can get the source *tarballs* placed into /usr/portage/distfiles by
> doing something like "emerge -e world -f".

But that would give me the source tarballs for *all* the packages. I
guess I just want sources for stuff like glibc, utils like find, grep,
etc which tend to form the base OS. I could do that on a per-package
basis, like 'emerge glibc -f', etc but I was hoping for a meta-port (I
am not sure what it is called here) that has all of this. (I am still
learning how to use portage and its various utilities; I am a gentoo
user since about 4 days now, coming from FreeBSD).

kaarthik
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