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* Nitin Kanaskar (nitinvk04@×××××.com) [02.05.09 19:15]: |
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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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Are you totally aware of what gentoo is about? |
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You always build the Gentoo OS from source. From upstream source! That's |
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the hole point of gentoo. And since you are able to do a vast amount of |
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choices, I think there is no gentoo installation alike in the world, |
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especially when it comes to binaries. |
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Also there is no defined set of software versions, which could make a |
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version of gentoo, as the binary dist have. Everything is in fluent |
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change and update. So there are no "old" installations exept those |
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someone forgot over the time. |
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> Hope I am clear about why I am looking for |
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> such old stuff. |
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Gentoo could be helpful to build such old stuff, the ebuilds are all in |
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the cvs and if you have got the upstream tarball, you can easily rebuild |
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the vulnerable software. But beware of some nasty depandency problems. |
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Sebastian |
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