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Microsoft Just Released MS-DOS Source Code! (github.com)

submitted 8 months ago by pastermil@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 130 points 8 months ago

Ignore them. Send a pull request with the full source of Arch Linux.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 53 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nah, just a giant compiled binary blob. That's what all the cool hackers do these days.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

I’ll try a supply chain attack! That’s a good trick!

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

dumb question maybe, but where is the full source of arch Linux? My understanding is that its just vanilla Linux that uses the pacman package manager.

Am I wrong in saying the pacman is the Arch source? Or is there more going on in the tar ball?

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 8 months ago

https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/base/

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Cheers! It looks like this is then the PKGBUILD

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/base/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads

In which case, there are no packages defined there which are Arch specific except pacman. So... pacman is the Arch source, right?

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A lot of these packages have Arch-specific modifications. For example, filesystem doesn't even have a non-Arch upstream as it defines the filesystem layout. That PKGBUILD and everything it depends on is the Arch source. Distributions are defined by which packages they include.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

ah, thanks for the clarification!

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 8 months ago

is archived

[-] ylai@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 months ago

There is even a sentence in README.md that makes it explicit:

The source files in this repo are for historical reference and will be kept static, so please don’t send Pull Requests suggesting any modifications to the source files […]