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brewmanz
Asked: 2020-02-10 19:32:32 +0800 CST

How do I scan all ubuntu source code? I have downloaded & extracted all 5 source dvd iso images

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I have downloaded and extracted all 5 source DVD iso images (ubuntu-19.10.1-src-*). There is no useful README; README.diskdefines is useless to me. I guess that the source code is embedded inside a gazillion tar files e.g. ubuntu-19.10.1-src-1/pool/main/a/accountservice/accountservice_0.6.55.orig.tar.xz.

I now want to scan Ubuntu for some code (using mlocate maybe), that displays the 'Oh no! Something has gone wrong' image, as it's popping up.

How do I extract all the source from the extracted DVD images? Is there a script? Or where can I find non-compressed source?

EDIT2

I have fixed the problem from which this question arose, but I still think that it's a reasonable question - how can I view all the source without manually extracting from each tar?

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dvd iso source-code tar

1 Answers

  1. You can use the debmirror tool to download all the source files. You will pull a lot of files (and we are not talking about a few Gbs here). This will get the source from "main" for "eoan":

    debmirror -a none --source -s main -d eoan,eoan-security,eoan-updates \
          -r /ubuntu --progress -e http -h archive.ubuntu.com outpath
    • Replace main with universe, multiverse, and restricted to get the other repositories.
    • archive.ubuntu.com can be any mirror.
    • I can not find reliable sources of the size of Ubuntu repositories but Debian's amd64 is 400Gb. Ubuntu is likely to be not less than that.

    Canonical has provided a script for this but you will need to adjust this to your needs.

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