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Looking at all replies - I think working on |
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older gentoo would most likely cause problems. |
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I am thinking of going for latest livecd - 2008 release. |
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On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 02 May 2009 19:14:45 Nitin Kanaskar wrote: |
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>> Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - |
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>> packages, versions... |
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>> But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this |
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>> is right. I am a graduate student doing research on |
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>> vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking |
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>> for older gentoo installations which i know have |
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>> some vulnerabilities. |
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>> If i have to build whole OS from source, I am willing |
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>> to do that - but could not find any resource on that |
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>> old stuff. |
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> I may have a copy of the 2005.0 livecd lying around somewhere. If I find it, |
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> I'll put a copy on my ftp server for you. |
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> But I see some problems with what you are trying to do: |
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> 1. source repositories for code changes over time. 2004/2005 ebuilds may have |
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> SRC_URIs that simply do not exist any more. Major packages (such as most of |
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> system) will likely not be a problem, but minor packages may well be |
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> problematic. |
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> 2. All gentoo ebuilds ever shipped are in cvs or svn somewhere. It was Neil |
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> Bothwick or Iain Buchanan who recently posted a URL, with luck the right man |
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> will see this and report. However, I do not know of a way to extract the |
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> entire portage tree as it was at a point in time. This too will be |
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> problematic. |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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