On Saturday 02 May 2009 19:14:45 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.
I may have a copy of the 2005.0 livecd lying around somewhere. If I find it, I'll put a copy on my ftp server for you. But I see some problems with what you are trying to do: 1. source repositories for code changes over time. 2004/2005 ebuilds may have SRC_URIs that simply do not exist any more. Major packages (such as most of system) will likely not be a problem, but minor packages may well be problematic. 2. All gentoo ebuilds ever shipped are in cvs or svn somewhere. It was Neil Bothwick or Iain Buchanan who recently posted a URL, with luck the right man will see this and report. However, I do not know of a way to extract the entire portage tree as it was at a point in time. This too will be problematic. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
