On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 11:19 -0600, Raj Swaminathan wrote:
> thanks Iain, Winston and Willie for all your help. I was looking
> specifically for the coreutils package and did not know where to find
> it.
aha, a little more information in the original email goes a long way :)
> Iain, i run gentoo so i do have the patched versions of what i need,
> thanks.
no worries. If you're wondering what a particular part of /bin belongs
to what package, emerge app-portage/gentoolkit and then use "equery
belongs /bin/something" so find out.
> But from you've said Im just curious to know if patched versions of
> the coreutils package will be available for download directly form the
> mirrors of distros like debian, slackware, ubuntu, suse Fedora's
> mirror had coreutils-5.2.1-48.1.x86_64.rpm but im not sure if thats
> patched.
As far as I recall for Fedora (haven't used it in a while) what you
download as a src.rpm is already patched the way Fedora has compiled it
to make the rpm. I don't know about the others, but I assume all binary
distro's would be the same or similar...
HTH,
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