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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions
Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 17:24:00
Message-Id: 20090502172356.GA12541@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions by Nitin Kanaskar
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4 On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 10:14:45AM -0700, Nitin Kanaskar wrote:
5 > Ok - I am not clear about the terminology -
6 > packages, versions...
7 > But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this
8 > is right. I am a graduate student doing research on
9 > vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking
10 > for older gentoo installations which i know have
11 > some vulnerabilities.
12 > If i have to build whole OS from source, I am willing
13 > to do that - but could not find any resource on that
14 > old stuff.
15
16 Gentoo, as a distribution, is versionless. The 2004/2005 you are
17 referring to are versions of our release media. What you would have to
18 do is find out which packages and which versions of the packages you
19 want to work with and see if we still have them in the tree.
20
21 William
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com>