Guest Opiumdreamer Posted July 16, 2005 Report Share Posted July 16, 2005 (edited) Hi! I run Mandriva 10.2 2005 L.ed. and i would be very happy if someone told me where to find the sources to the base system (i.e /bin/, /sbin/ etc.). If it is a packages installable from the package manager I would like to know it. ::EDIT:: I have browsed several FTP sites for the sources without finding these ones - it seems as if Mandriva only supplies the sources to their special RPM packages and not to the base system utilities like ls, chmod, cat, more, od, calc and all these commands that have been in all distros from start. I have found the FreeBSD sources for these utilities to check out but someone must maintain them for Linux as well right? Or at least the sources must be out there somewhere. Please help me out ::EDIT:: Thanks you very much in advance! Regards, Opiumdreamer Edited July 16, 2005 by Opiumdreamer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted July 17, 2005 Report Share Posted July 17, 2005 I haven't checked this extensively. However, all the basic utilities you mentioned (such as cat, chmod, and others) can be found in coreutils rpm. So you should download the coreutils source rpm, unpack it using the command rpm -Uvh <name of rpm>, and then go to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES directory to see the source files. Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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