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This is the source used for Slackware.
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To look for a particular bit of source (let's say for 'cp'), first you would
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look for the full path:
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fuzzy:~# which cp
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/bin/cp
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Then, you grep for the package it came from. Note that the leading '/'
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is removed:
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fuzzy:~# grep bin/cp /var/log/packages/*
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/var/log/packages/cpio-2.4.2.91-i386-1:bin/cpio
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/var/log/packages/fileutils-4.1-i386-2:bin/cp
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/var/log/packages/gcc-2.95.3-i386-2:usr/bin/cpp
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/var/log/packages/gnome-applets-1.4.0.5-i386-1:usr/bin/cpumemusage_applet
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From this, you can see that 'cp' came from the fileutils-4.1-i386-2 package.
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The source will be found in a corresponding subdirectory. In this case, that
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would be ./a/bin. Don't be fooled into thinking that the _bin.tar.gz in this
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directory is the package with the source code -- anything starting with '_' is
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just a framework package full of empty files with the correct permissions and
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ownerships for the completed package to use.
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Many of these packages now have scripts that untar, patch, and compile the
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source automatically. These are the 'SlackBuild' scripts. Moving back to the
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example above, you can figure out which package the bin/cp source came from by
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examining the SlackBuild script.
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Have fun!
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---
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Patrick J. Volkerding
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volkerdi@slackware.com
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