Re: [Freemint-discuss] sources of oldstuff package

[Miro K. <mir...@gm...>]

Hi,

perhaps someone will find this info useful. I found my old email about it
while searching for exactly the same thing again (after 10 years!)

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 at 00:41, Miro Kropacek <mir...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've noticed there are no sources for stuff in oldstuff package, i.e.
> source code of such essential tools like init, getty and so on. Basically,
> binary and src rpm are the same. There's package called mintinit and it
> does contain at least init but it seems it's totally different program and
> it's even marked as experimental.
>
> Does anybody know where to get sources for this package? Or everyone
> building the distro just took those binaries and didn't care that much?
>
Not surprisingly, the package in question
<https://freemint.github.io/sparemint/sparemint/html/packages/oldstuff.html> is
a compilation from various sources, namely:

   - MiNTOS 1.4.1 (https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~steve/mintos.html --
   amazingly it's still the same website since the 90s and the guy still works
   at Oxford :)) [init, halt, last, tty stuff, ...]
   - ttyvdev a.k.a Virtual consoles (https://joy.sophics.cz/soft.htm) -- I
   think the package includes 0.7 version [execgem, execmtos]
   - shutdown 0.5 (http://yescrew.atari.org/eng/index_e.htm) -- proper link
   is http://yescrew.atari.org/bin/mint/shutdown.tar.gz [shutdown]

I couldn't find only one binary source, 'reboot'. shutdown.c claims it is
based on a reboot.c but that is all I could find.

I'm thinking about putting it into a git repository, mostly for the purpose
of creating a ColdFire build. 'mintinit' (which already has been imported)
is really just a pre-alpha thing, I found many emails from Guido with
warning everyone not to use it.

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