I have a number of systems I support and some are Arch Linux and some are Debian or Debian derivatives. I recently saw a question about the hostname command and the difference between the -i and -I options. To my surprise, the version of hostname from Arch did not have the -I option. Looking at versions, Arch had v1.94 from GNU's inetutils, but my Debian systems had version 3.19 or 3.20. My questions are:
Where did these versions fork?
Does Debian have its on versions of many other utilities?
Is there some other tree from which Debian's utilities are derived?
Just curious.
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Do some research, eg: https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/ ... ation.html
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http://net-tools.sourceforge.net/
description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the
latest version of this page, can be found at
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/ma ... ame.5.html
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Into a search engine, the same for the other questions.
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi ... fs.en.html
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http://net-tools.sourceforge.net/
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/ma ... ame.1.htmlNB: some projects (like Debian and RedHat) use a net-tools based but different hostname command.
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/hostname.7.html This page is part of release 5.08 of the Linux man-pages project. AThis page is part of the net-tools (networking utilities) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://net-tools.sourceforge.net/⟩.
description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the
latest version of this page, can be found at
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/ma ... ame.5.html
After you do your research, post back and let us know what you find.This page is part of the systemd (systemd system and service manager)
project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd⟩. If you have a bug
report for this manual page, see
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwar ... bugreports⟩. This
page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git⟩[b] on 2020-08-13.[/b] (At that
time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the repos‐
itory was 2020-08-11.) If you discover any rendering problems in
this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or
more up-to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or
improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which is not part
of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org
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Does Debian have its on versions of many other utilities?
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi ... fs.en.html
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