Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:38:51 +0100 From: Tore Lund <toreld@netscape.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is packages-6.2-release? Message-ID: <47DC41EB.8070009@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <200803151925.m2FJPKe2084851@whoweb.com> References: <200803151925.m2FJPKe2084851@whoweb.com>
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>> 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.
Aggravating indeed. The real question here is why the OP does not
upgrade to 6.3-RELEASE.
I don't see a problem with not providing disk space for such a specific
set of packages, and especially when a number of them can be found on
the ISOs for the release in question.
--
Tore
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