Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:07:12 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass <aimass@yabarana.com> To: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD.org pkg mirror for older versions? Message-ID: <CAHieY7TjDkd2kdt3wAYO-q5fn_SQ221Z2BAezisY1EdDvZ7Fqw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <YFzhEObOXTx1JijJ@geeks.org> References: <CAHieY7QNY%2B-hAZJ45Nk73k8S9nS9E1xAxj0auo-6kPdBb==9=w@mail.gmail.com> <8a151ed5-ebce-aad5-714f-457309059d6e@kicp.uchicago.edu> <YFzhEObOXTx1JijJ@geeks.org>
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Yeah agreed. I can't believe these are not maintained long-term and that no one has ever volunteered to host them. On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 3:14 PM Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 11:16:01AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On 3/24/21 11:08 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > Are there any sites/cdns that maintain older versions of pkg repos > that are > > > reliable? > ... > > > You are trying to do something that is not designed/supported by any > > system vendor (not only FreeBSD), and it is something system > > administrators will not do normally. > ... > > I wish there was a way to grab old packages, when I run into bugs in > the latest versions that weren't in the earlier versions. Or dropped > features, or added features that interfer with something else that > will take you 6 weeks to clear. > > Thankfully I have a big enough pool of machines, that I can usually > find the older package in one of the package caches of another machine. > > But still, would be nice to load the older package back directly. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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