From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 15 19:29:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8674F1065689 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:29:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailist@whoweb.com) Received: from whoweb.com (whoweb.com [66.180.172.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5578FC2F for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:28:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailist@whoweb.com) Received: from whoweb.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whoweb.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2FJPKbX084852 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:25:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (from mailist@localhost) by whoweb.com (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m2FJPKe2084851 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:25:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:25:20 -0500 (EST) From: Incoming Mail List Message-Id: <200803151925.m2FJPKe2084851@whoweb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Where is packages-6.2-release? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:29:20 -0000 >I have only ONE question. >Where is packages-6.2-release? I have FreeBSD 6.2, and tuning it. >Where I can download packages for my freebsd version? Thats a great question, and it appears that the 6.2-release packages repository has been removed. Looking in ftp.freebsd.org I see 5-stable, 6-stable, 6.3-release, 7-stable, 7.0-release, and 8-current. There is no 6.2-release directory so "pkg_add -r" returns an error for any package that you try to load. Very aggravating. Apparently the release team is only providing packages for the most recent streams. I'd like to know why that is, and also why they insist on listing "packages" under "ports". The documentation makes it very clear there is a difference between the two. Why anyone on the release team thinks it's intuitive to look for a ready-to-go "package" under a "ports" directory which has been defined by documentation as something that needs to be compiled, is a mystery to simpletons like myself.