[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-05-02, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:
> On 2009-05-02, Nitin Kanaskar <nitinvk04@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> I am looking for older versions of gentoo - 1.x, 2.x,...
>
> Gentoo doesn't have "versions".  Individual packages have
> versions.

After a bit of googling, it looks like the snapshots/CDs did
have "version numbers" prior to about 5 years ago.  After that
they were just labelled according to year.  [Still, they're not
really "versions" the way that other distros have versions.]

>> I browsed source repositories - gentoo, gentoo-src, gentoo-x86
>> - could not find/identify it.

Old versions of packages aren't kept in the portage tree
forever.  If you're looking for old versions of the CD images,
it looks like they're only kept around for a couple years.

-- 
Grant