Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:25:21 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: Hudginsj@DCAR.Main.PO (Jason Hudgins) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Source code distribution.. Message-ID: <199611221825.NAA00297@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <26E1554D27@smtp.dancooks.com> from "Jason Hudgins" at Nov 22, 96 10:34:28 am
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> My companies webserver was running linux, but we just > had a nasty hard drive crash..so now I am installing > FreeBSD..I like it better, but I have a question with > regards to the source..how exactly it is organized?? > > Slackware was pretty easy for me to find what I was > looking for..a1 a2 a3 a4 etc for the base stuff d1 d2 for > developement...n1 n2 for networking packages.. > > How are these arranged for FreeBSD...if I needed to > patch a program...say for umount since it has/had > buffer overflow problems...Where would I look > for the source..short of downloading and > extracting everything.. > These are my opinions -- this is not my "area", so I am sure that there are those who have a better feeling for filesystem organization will correct me as appropriate: This is also most applicable to -current (2.2), however, is almost correct for 2.1.X. /usr/src contains it all... under that you'll sources that contain programs insubdirs: etc essentially the config files that reside in etc. include many of the user land include files contrib the base files for some of the imported programs like bison, tcl, etc... lib source file for the libs. there are subdirs under that for the various libs. usr.sbin system programs (usually for root), that are used after boot, and after usr is mounted. tools misc install tools, etc. sys the infamous kernel share those things that are likely usable across platforms. things like textfiles, and termcap, etc... secure an adjunct tree with various utilites that have encryption in them. sbin various binaries used during/after single user mode. lkm sources for various loadable kernel modules libexec various daemon sources usr.bin normal userland binaries gnu mostly GPLed code, but other restrictively copyrighted code also. bin normal userland binaries, also used by root before mounting /usr (single-user mode usage.) John general
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