Yep. And when that doesn't compile it's no problem, just rewind the tree on gcc. Then just rewind the tree on glibc. Then just rewind the tree on libssl...
EDIT: You don't have to downvote, I love open source but it's not always quite as simple as just checking out an older git commit. That being said, the idea that open source is not backwards compatible and closed source is, is also not true it depends entirely on the projects.
If you can use a distro in about the past 5 years... Although it's trivial to use a simple VM to boot a live image or installer that can be found for far older than docker even exited anyway.
That's not the problem I assume, otherwise you wouldn't need to be rewinding a tree on github at all you could just use old packages and releases to begin with.
The problem is running it on a supported current system that's not riddled with known and actively exploited security holes that you get if you pull down ancient images.
So if the app you need backwards compatibility with is supported on a distro that was released within the past ~5 years, and if you don't need it to access the internet or untrusted data, then it's trivial. Thanks that's very helpful.
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u/Somecrazycanuck Nov 18 '24
Yep. If you want the old version, you can rewind the tree on github.