Looking at all replies - I think working on older gentoo would most likely cause problems. I am thinking of going for latest livecd - 2008 release.
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
