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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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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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