Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 04:37:29 -0800 (PST) From: Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Where is the ports collection of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE? Message-ID: <20031101123729.85393.qmail@web14801.mail.yahoo.com>
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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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/
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