I may need more time for doing this - currently for time constraint i have switched over to some other distro. Thanks for the info Mark.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mark Shields <laebsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
