From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 15 22:42:02 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 8226E1065673 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:42:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 542298FC13; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:42:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <47DC50BA.6000009@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:42:02 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Incoming Mail List References: <200803151925.m2FJPKe2084851@whoweb.com> In-Reply-To: <200803151925.m2FJPKe2084851@whoweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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 22:42:02 -0000 Incoming Mail List wrote: >> 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. Disk space is not infinite. ftp-archive has old releases. packages are built from ports and are part of the ports collection. Kris