Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-07 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
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 wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-07 Thread Mark Shields
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Hubbs 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 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-04 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
James... I would definitely give this a thought - sounds interesting and challenging. Thanks a lot, Nitin On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:56 AM, James wrote: > Nitin Kanaskar gmail.com> writes: > > >> Thank you so much Dale again - but i >> would try to follow links given by Neil - >> thank you Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
Thank you so much Dale again - but i would try to follow links given by Neil - thank you Neil - and chk in the cvs repositories. Really appreciate your willingness to help. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Dale wrote: > Nitin Kanaskar wrote: >> Thanks a lot Dale for your help. >> But I would go fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Dale
Nitin Kanaskar wrote: > Thanks a lot Dale for your help. > But I would go for other OS - debian, opensuse, fedora...- > or recent gentoo releases. > Thanks a lot all of you for your inputs. > > How about a Mandrake 9.1? I may have that as well. LOL It's just a thought. I'm a pack rat so I k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 2 May 2009 19:45:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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. There's a CVS link on the Gentoo home page, and you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 2 May 2009 10:14:45 -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 olde

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
Thanks a lot Dale for your help. But I would go for other OS - debian, opensuse, fedora...- or recent gentoo releases. Thanks a lot all of you for your inputs. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Dale wrote: > KH wrote: >> Nitin Kanaskar schrieb: >> >>> Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Dale
KH wrote: > Nitin Kanaskar schrieb: > >> 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 in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread KH
Nitin Kanaskar schrieb: > 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 kno

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Nitin Kanaskar (nitinv...@gmail.com) [02.05.09 19:15]: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:14 PM, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
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 wrote: > On Saturday 02 May 2009 19:14:45 Nitin Kanaskar wrote: >> Ok - I am not clear about the termi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
I just noticed gentoo linux security site - - www.gentoo.org/security/en/ which mentions some very recent vulnerability reports in latest gentoo packages. That means i can play with these new gentoo packages for vulnerability and exploit analysis. Nikos - please correct me if you think i am going w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
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 g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread William Hubbs
-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 > vulnerabili

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Nitin Kanaskar
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 ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-05-02, Nitin Kanaskar wrote: > > >> I am looking for older versions of gentoo - 1.x, 2.x,... >> > > Gentoo doesn't have "versions". Individual packages have > versions. > > >> I browsed source repositories - gentoo, gentoo-src, gentoo-x86 >> - could not