Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 22:58:58 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom? Message-ID: <19971130225858.49104@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199711302019.PAA24867@federation.addy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 03:12:17PM %2B0000 References: <199711302019.PAA24867@federation.addy.com>
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As Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Alternatively a list of where the sources are
> in the first CD and a small script to get a program out would be just
> as good. For example recently I wanted to look at the source code for
> "renice". Getting the entire usr.bin took too much space.
Where's what shouldn't be that hard to guess, since the various source
tarballs just represent the subdirs of /usr/src, which are in turn
closely related (though not 100 % sure) to the target directory in the
tree. Suppose you're looking for the source of /bin/ls, it'll be in
/usr/src/bin/ls. Or /usr/sbin/ppp can be found in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ppp.
That's all explained in hier(7).
Finally, the various s<foo>.?? files are just split .tar.gz files, so
you can always extract from there what you want. That's rather a Unix
beginner's exercise. ;-) (<== "non-aggressive smiley" :-)
So for your example "renice":
j@uriah 164% whereis -b renice
renice: /usr/bin/renice
Ok, we need the /usr/src/usr.bin/ tarball then ("subin" ==
"src/usr.bin"):
j@uriah 165% cd /usr/src
j@uriah 166% cat /cdrom/src/subin.?? | tar -xvzf - usr.bin/renice
usr.bin/renice/
usr.bin/renice/CVS/
usr.bin/renice/CVS/Root
usr.bin/renice/CVS/Repository
usr.bin/renice/CVS/Entries
usr.bin/renice/CVS/Tag
usr.bin/renice/Makefile
usr.bin/renice/renice.8
usr.bin/renice/renice.c
(If you don't want the CVS/ files, add "--exclude CVS" to the tar
options.)
Disclaimer: my 2.2.5 CDs didn't arrive yet, so i don't know what's
there on which CD at all.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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