Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:09:48 -0500 From: Mike Hauber <m.hauber@mchsi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help please Message-ID: <200411151609.49456.m.hauber@mchsi.com> In-Reply-To: <20041115203027.GB67113@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200411151557.iAFFvOOX005675@ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com> <20041115203027.GB67113@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Monday 15 November 2004 03:30 pm, Kris Kennaway proclaimed: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 01:57:13PM -0500, Aaron Carranza wrote: > > I installed freebsd version 4.9, but for some reason I > > can't download any packages from any website, version > > 4.8 also gives me the same problem. Why is this > > happening? > > For space reasons packages for old releases are not kept > on the main ftp site. They may still be found on mirror > sites, so you can look around and set the environment > variables described in the pkg_add(1) manpage to fetch > from a mirror once you find one that still carries the > packages. The website http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/ > used to list mirrors carrying various old releases, but > this seems not to be alive at the moment. > > Kris I can't remember for what ports (it was a while back), but I've had to google the port name to find/download what I needed (of course, you'll want to make sure the MD5 matches, else you could be installing ports that were tampered with). Same goes for packages. If upgrading to 4.10-STABLE is an option, then I would go that route instead. HTH, Mike
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