Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:57:33 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: determining what's in the base system Message-ID: <20080415235733.GA79279@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20080415162955.Y25041@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> References: <20080415231450.GF78906@demeter.hydra> <20080415162955.Y25041@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org>
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--J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 04:35:52PM -0700, Luke Dean wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Chad Perrin wrote: >=20 > >I have two questions. First: > > > >Assume you have a FreeBSD system installed that has been running for at > >least a year, with a bunch of graphical desktop and productivity software > >installed, and have both installed and uninstalled a lot of software over > >that time. Now imagine that you want to know whether a given utility was > >something that came with the base system or was installed by some port or > >package later on. What's the easiest way to do that (preferably without > >installing the FreeBSD base system on a computer and checking whether the > >utility is present)? > > > >Second: > > > >Where can I get a list of all licenses on all software in the base > >system? I know there's at least the BSD License, the GPL, and the LGPL, > >but I'm a little hazy on what else is in there. I'm pretty sure there > >isn't any proprietary closed source software in there, but I wouldn't bet > >any substantial amount of money on it at this point, because I haven't > >really checked into it. >=20 > For the first question, I'd first look at where the utility is. Base=20 > system utilities won't be in /usr/local. Add-on packages and ports=20 > "should" be. > The "pkg_info" utility and all of its switches and options could be usefu= l=20 > too, if your ports database is correct. Thanks. Using what's in /usr/local should have occurred to me. >=20 > For the second question, I've always assumed that /COPYRIGHT applied to= =20 > everything in the base system. I'm pretty sure GCC is in the base system (for instance), and it's GPL software. There's no mention of it in /COPYRIGHT at all. Please correct me if I'm mistaken somehow. --=20 CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Patrick J. LoPresti: "Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!" --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkgFQO0ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXXEwCfaarH1pLdE17h92LMYGdVwP+u TCcAn3aVCjyvlYoi7RsocKZXFYd3b8PJ =CRJS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf--
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