From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 22 03:43:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBC26A5 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:43:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B7C8FC08 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:43:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f182.google.com with SMTP id wc20so2733330obb.13 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:43:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=0Tlp9XzEZrSXpxRtXJx5h+fFWFx/gSSF+CXQhXOQVlM=; b=SZSQTLy4bf5Pd0YJfF0Oqum1xRNjzpBYb0ngBoJ5PzKzEu+IOEzcUMQhB0Ow/iubnn /rgzkFw8ZUGYyUXvGGTb+ol2+By7qeTO2RyESgxtBXvHDKLETavBksJyqlDRuqkE4ScD 0cwc8EyjXGb4FfjHC8xrN2AburC5fKVa27G1BnvXrQWypjD9N+IUJpeKMoohYaEmQNak t8QPHu9vUAvZhRB6sxrkhunVbZmUWXPbYTJn4lJPBO0/Y5EiaXxqRshxX3Ep/32mnC9j QFH0evEz11Pt8S8lKg5jjJQ8G4vqD8QL0I2ql19ZTS02AbK5OVwA1Qlu12E6HMBGKbof mneA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.86.225 with SMTP id s1mr5839327obz.91.1350877384482; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:43:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.80.104 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:43:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20121022113136.7BB4.59217E37@mix-net.co.jp> References: <20121022113136.7BB4.59217E37@mix-net.co.jp> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:43:04 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Question regarding a server with an unsupported old version From: Adam Vande More To: Rei Okamoto Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:43:05 -0000 On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Rei Okamoto wrote: > Hello to all, > > My name is Rei Okamoto posting from Japan. > > I'm very new to FreeBSD and please pardon and caution me > if anything I post is in any way inappropriate. > > Here's a problem I'm facing right now. > > I started working for a company this month as a > sole engineerer, given all my tasks with virtually > no manuals other than IP addresses, IDs and PWs. > (Dangerous, but not such a rare case in this country) > > One of the clients is running the web site using > FreeBSD 4.7. > > Although it is surely the best to renew the server to > newest machine and OS, the client is reluctant to do so > because of money. > > So a long story short, because I need to do some testing, > I've installed FreeBSD 4.11 to the VirtualBox as a > test server in my local PC and got the network connected. > > I want to build the test server as close to the > actual server as possible, such as considering the > OS's version 4.11 to be close enough to 4.7, but > as I try to install PHP4 with a following command, > > pkg_add -r php4-4.3.6.tgz > > I get an error message below. > > Error: FTP Unable to get > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.11-release/Latest/php4-4.3.6.tgz: > File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) > > So you probably can figure out the rest of the story, > it is all too old to make a near duplication of the server. > > Is there any suggestion on what I can do > other than convincing the client to renew the server? > (which I am doing but already been politely refused) > > Pardon me for the long message, > and thank you in advance for all replies. > You can find an archive of packages released with FreeBSD 4.11 here: ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/4.11-RELEASE/packages/All/ However, you'll find the packages are different than those released with your original version. A move from 4.7 to 4.11 doesn't really gain you much. Better off to start a migration strategy or leave it alone. -- Adam Vande More