Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands

[tastytea <gentoo@tastytea.de>]

On 2022-10-07 17:25+0200 n952162 <n952162@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.

Other ways to find out:
  - `equery meta sys-apps/coreutils`
  - `less $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo)/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.32-r1.ebuild`

Kind regards, tastytea

[1] `whereis test`
[2] `qfile /usr/bin/test` or `equery belongs /usr/bin/test`
[3] `eix sys-apps/coreutils` or emerge -s sys-apps/coreutils`