how to download Xorg source correctly?

[Steven Susbauer]

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Charlie Kravetz
<cjk at teamcharliesangels.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 May 2009 21:34:53 +0800
> loody <miloody at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear all:
> > I use " sudo apt-get source xorg-dev" to download xorg.
> > but after taring the file, I cannot see the source code inside.
> > The content is shown below:
> >
> > desktop:~$ cd xorg-7.4~5ubuntu3/
> > desktop:~/xorg-7.4~5ubuntu3$ ls
> > debian  rules  stamp-build  stampdir  stamp-scripts
> > stamp-validatescripts desktop:~/xorg-7.4~5ubuntu3$
> >
> > Did I use the wrong command or type wrong package name?
> > appreciate your help,
> > miloody
> >
>
> Are they all files, or is debian a directory witht the code in it?
>
debian is a control directory which contains all the options for
building a package or packages from the source.

xorg-dev contains some libraries, it is not the source for the server.
Xorg is organized into many packages, with a metapackage that pulls
them in as dependencies. The main xorg server package is
xserver-xorg-core, and running apt-get source xserver-xorg-core will
download those sources.

Also note that you don't have to use sudo to run apt-get source.

 -Steve