Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

[Mark Shields <laebshade@gmail.com>]

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 10:14:45AM -0700, Nitin Kanaskar wrote:
>> Ok - I am not clear about the terminology -
>> packages, versions...
>> But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this
>> is right. I am a graduate student doing research on
>> vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking
>> for older gentoo installations which i know have
>> some vulnerabilities.
>> If i have to build whole OS from source, I am willing
>> to do that - but could not find any resource on that
>> old stuff.
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> Gentoo, as a distribution, is versionless.  The 2004/2005 you are
> referring to are versions of our release media.  What you would have to
> do is find out which packages and which versions of the packages you
> want to work with and see if we still have them in the tree.
>
> William
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That isn't entirely accurate.  If you can get a livecd, or a minimal
cd + package cd (distfiles), and just not upgrade portage, he would be
able to use it fine.

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- Mark Shields