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On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Michael Sierchio wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 12:19 PM,  <doug@safeport.com> wrote:
>> ... how long will old repositories be available?
>
> Who knows?  Need packages for 4.11-RELEASE (for example)?
>
> http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/4.11-RELEASE/packages/All/

Yea and I used that to go back to 7.0. I just wanted to know if there was an 
'offical' policy.

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