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

[n952162 <n952162@web.de>]

Am 07.10.22 um 17:47 schrieb tastytea:
> 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`
>

Oh, that's good.  Thank you.