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.
Hope I am clear about why I am looking for such old stuff. Nitin On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote: > On 2009-05-02, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote: >> On 2009-05-02, Nitin Kanaskar <nitinv...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I am looking for older versions of gentoo - 1.x, 2.x,... >> >> Gentoo doesn't have "versions". Individual packages have >> versions. > > After a bit of googling, it looks like the snapshots/CDs did > have "version numbers" prior to about 5 years ago. After that > they were just labelled according to year. [Still, they're not > really "versions" the way that other distros have versions.] > >>> I browsed source repositories - gentoo, gentoo-src, gentoo-x86 >>> - could not find/identify it. > > Old versions of packages aren't kept in the portage tree > forever. If you're looking for old versions of the CD images, > it looks like they're only kept around for a couple years. > > -- > Grant > > > >
