From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 21:04:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21DA816A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:04:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C565D43D46 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:04:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.hauber@mchsi.com) Received: from [10.51.10.3] (12-219-204-133.client.mchsi.com[12.219.204.133]) by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with ESMTP id <20041115210438m9200k1sb0e>; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:04:38 +0000 From: Mike Hauber To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:09:48 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <200411151557.iAFFvOOX005675@ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com> <20041115203027.GB67113@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041115203027.GB67113@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Copyright: 2004, Michael C. Hauber. All rights reserved. X-Notice: Duplication, modification, and/or redistribution are prohibited without proper consent from the author. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411151609.49456.m.hauber@mchsi.com> Subject: Re: help please X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: m.hauber@mchsi.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:04:39 -0000 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