On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 17:47:51 +0200
tastytea <gentoo@tastytea.de> wrote:
> On 2022-10-07 17:25+0200 n952162 <n952162@web.de> wrote:
>
> > Am 07.10.22 um 16:56 schrieb Grant Taylor:
> > > On 10/7/22 8:25 AM, n952162 wrote:
> > >> Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history
> > >> of linux commands?
> > >
> > > Some man pages have history of commands in them.
> > >
> > > Admittedly, it seems as if man pages on Solaris and *BSD (I have
> > > access to FreeBSD) tend to be better than Linux man page at this
> > > aspect.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Well, the man page, yes, would be a good indicator, but the commands
> > themselves?
> >
> > Where does gentoo get the source to build test(1) or expr(1) or
> > date(1)? That's in some package, but where is the upstream
> > source? Is it something in github? Or a linux portal? Or Torvalds
> > private server? Or the gnu server?
> >
> >
>
> /usr/bin/test[1] was installed by sys-apps/coreutils[2], it's homepage
> is <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>[3], that links to the
> source code repository.
For me the first and most obvious place to look at is
/usr/share/doc/<package>/. Usually there is NEWS or ChangeLog file or
both. Which <package> it is you can get from man page (it is written
at the end in the "footer") or with command
$ equery belongs `which <command>`.
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