From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 18:30:53 2002 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 9F52637B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:30:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtprelay7.dc2.adelphia.net (smtprelay7.dc2.adelphia.net [64.8.50.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B825143E6A for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:30:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sycholic71@adelphia.net) Received: from bsd.lambdarpg.homeip.net ([24.51.173.72]) by smtprelay7.dc2.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 smtprelay7 Dec 7 2001 09:58:59) with ESMTP id H2Z07902.GLI; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:30:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:33:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Chekay X-X-Sender: To: Matthew Seaman Cc: Subject: Re: FTP site problems In-Reply-To: <20020921105832.GA18097@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Message-ID: <20020924213147.Y6910-100000@bsd.lambdarpg.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ah thank you very much Matthew for that help. Also i dont know if its posted publicly on the web site, but might be a good idea to have that for use older version uses. Thank you alot! On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:01:05PM -0400, Chris Chekay wrote: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.4-release > > it seems that the whole packages distribution is offline. I have tried > > all of the mirrors shown in /stand/sysinstall and none work... is it just > > temporarily down or permanately? Im just wondering cuz nothing on the freebsd > > home web page mentions there being anything wrong.... > > Packages from older releases have been removed from the ftp sites to > make room for the new packages for 4.7-RELEASE. The default package > compression has also been changed from gzip to bzip2, which means that > if you have an older version of pkg_add it's going to be mystified by > recently built packages. Your choices now are > > .../ports/i386/packages-4.6-release > .../ports/i386/packages-4.6.1-release > .../ports/i386/packages-4.6.2-release > > which should all work on any system from the 4.x series so long as you > fulfil all the dependencies. Use the PACKAGESITE environment variable > to cause pkg_add(1) to search one of the alternate directories. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message