Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:33:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Chekay <sycholic71@adelphia.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FTP site problems Message-ID: <20020924213147.Y6910-100000@bsd.lambdarpg.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020921105832.GA18097@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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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
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