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Subject: Fwd: Where is the ports collection of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE?
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I probably have chosen a wrong @freebsd.org mailing list when asked a
question about strange ports collection miss in FreeBSD project's ftp
servers. So I'm forwarding this question to freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org.
Could someone explain following issue?

Thanks

--- Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From Rostislav Krasny Fri Oct 31 14:51:19 2003
> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:51:19 -0800 (PST)
> From: Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Where is the ports collection of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE?
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I just installed the FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE by FTP from ftp.freebsd.org.
> I have chosen "All" in "Choose Distributions" step of sysinstall.
> During the installation I got error message about that the ports
> collection cannot be located in ftp.freebsd.org. I did few retries
> but without success, so I continued the installation. There was no
> more problem.
> 
> Now I see that
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/ports/
> directory just doesn't exist. I checked few mirrors of
> ftp.freebsd.org but .../4.9-RELEASE/ports/ doesn't exist there too.
> At the same time .../4.8-RELEASE/ports/ and .../5.1-RELEASE/ports/
> exist. As far as I know, most people uses ISO images and installs
> FreeBSD from CD. I didn't check FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE ISO image but
> I'm suspecting that .../4.9-RELEASE/ports/ exist there.
> Is .../4.9-RELEASE/ports/ non-existence a consequence of some FTP
> upload problem? Could someone upload .../4.9-RELEASE/ports/ to fix
it?
> 
> Thanks

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