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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 02/01/2013 08:00, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote:
>> In this case for a new Nas4free machine, will you recommend to base it
>> on 9.0 or 9.1 ?
> 
> Either.  Whichever one works best for you, and if you can't distinguish
> them on performance or bug-fixes, choose 9.1.
> 
> However, don't fall into the trap of thinking 'because I'm running OS
> version 9.0 I have to use the binary packages for 9.0.'  You don't.  And
> in fact, if it's more than a month or so since the OS was released, you
> should be checking for updates.
> 
> Unfortunately, since the security problem, there haven't been updates to
> package sets for *any* OS versions available.  So your best recourse is
> to pull down a copy of the ports tree and build what packages you need
> for yourself.  This is time consuming, but not particularly difficult.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 

what is the status of
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-current/Latest/
which is on the ftp servers?