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

[Kaarthik Sivakumar <kaarthik@clovissolutions.com>]

Tom Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:48:41PM -0700, Peter Johanson <latexer@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:42:30PM -0700, Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote:
>>
>>>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".
> 
> 
> emerge -ef system will fetch tarballs for just the base system also.
> This may be closer to what you're looking for.
> 
Ah! This seems like it. Thanks, I will try it out.

kaarthik

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