From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 19 13:45:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80AAE1065676 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:45:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064518FC1E for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:45:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9JDimjU048825; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:45:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n9JDimaX048824; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:44:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:44:48 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200910191344.n9JDimaX048824@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, GedankeZauberer@comcast.net In-Reply-To: <200910170357.35767.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:45:03 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: Quickie question X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, GedankeZauberer@comcast.net List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:45:21 -0000 Allen wrote: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 02:52:56 am Tony Theodore wrote: > > OK, so if you have a look at the contents of > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/, it seems 7.1 packages > > are no longer being built. Not sure there's much you can do apart from > > using ports or upgrading. > > Thanks for letting me know about that. I didn't know. I heard the other day on > here that 7.1 had a longer life cycle than 7.2 so I hadn't upgraded as I > planned on waiting for 8.0, but I guess it's time to just go ahead and > upgrade. AFAIK this has nothing to do with the life cycle of 7.1. The older packages (and 7.1 is regarded as older) have been moved from the main FTP site to ftp-archive.freebsd.org. You can still use the pkg_add tool with 7.1, you just have to set the PACKAGESITE environment variable to the place where the packages are located. This has to be the full URL including the path where the files are to be found. See the pkg_add(1) manual page for detals, or ask Google. However, note that the releaase packages are never updated. If you want to update packages beyond the versions as of the release, you need to follow the 7-stable packages. (Or use the ports collection via portsnap, csup or similar, but it seems you don't want to do that.) Of course, updating to a newer version of FreeBSD is not an entirely bad idea either. ;-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Perl will consistently give you what you want, unless what you want is consistency." -- Larry Wall