Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 16:38:41 +0000 From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no 9.1-release packages? Message-ID: <955DBA31-0BBD-4CFD-84A0-D0FB50886BFB@exonetric.com> In-Reply-To: <20130307155253.GA24876@eris.bzerk.org> References: <20130307155253.GA24876@eris.bzerk.org>
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On 7 Mar 2013, at 15:52, Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some = packages. > This however does not work as there is no directory = "packages-9.1-release" on the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why is this? >=20 If you're prepared to move to pkgng for binary packages,=20 https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng There's an unofficial pkgng format repository of binary packages = available After installing pkgng (from ports), then edit your = /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf to use this line. PACKAGESITE : = http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/${ABI}/latest - Mark =20=
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