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

submitted 10 months ago by pastermil@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 141 points 10 months ago

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

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago

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

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 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 10 months ago

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

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago

ah, thanks for the clarification!

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 10 months ago

is archived

[-] ylai@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 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The source files in this repo are for historical reference and will be kept static, so please don’t send Pull Requests suggesting any modifications to the source files […]