On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkn8gawACgkQblQW9DDEZThqXwCgs9ZSKvDZbRgd9bzmDxe9wA36 > ccUAoIrd1uKpHzEvlRXRbBEzearyYKYS > =cPF9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
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. -- - Mark Shields
