Re: Files in /etc containing empty VCSId header
- In reply to: Gary Jennejohn : "Re: Files in /etc containing empty VCSId header"
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:45:57 UTC
On Tue, 2021-06-08 at 13:47 +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 09:41:34 +0000 > Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 01:58:01PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > Sometimes it's a real interesting exercise to figure out where a > > > file on your runtime system comes from in the source world. > > > > A tangential problem I trip over is "what is on this SD card?" > > > > It generally takes me 5-10 minutes to remember: > > > > strings /<mount>/boot/kernel/kernel | tail > > > > AFIAK it's the only way to be sure; nothing in /<mount>/* seems > > to have that data. > > > > (Yes, in theory they all live in their own little box each of > > which is labeled but things happen ...) > > > > I use locate for this kind of search, e.g. > > locate netoptions > /etc/rc.d/netoptions > /usr/src/libexec/rc/rc.d/netoptions > Not a useful technique on my machine: revolution > locate netoptions | wc -l 192 I have dozens of build chroots for various products for $work. -- Ian