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- This is the source used for Slackware 3.0.0.
-
- To look for a particular bit of source (let's say for 'cp'), first you
- would look for the full path:
-
- fuzzy:~# which cp
- /bin/cp
-
- Then, you grep for the package it came from. Note that the leading '/'
- is removed:
-
- fuzzy:~# grep bin/cp /var/adm/packages/*
- /var/adm/packages/bin:bin/cp
- /var/adm/packages/cpio:bin/cpio
- /var/adm/packages/perl:usr/bin/cppstdin
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- From this, you can see that 'cp' came from the bin.tgz package. The source
- will be found in a corresponding subdirectory. In this case, that would be
- ./a/bin.
-
- Most of these packages now have scripts that untar, patch, and compile the
- source automatically.
-
- Have fun!
-
- ---
- Patrick J. Volkerding
- volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com
-