Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:00:12 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where to get older ports? Message-ID: <440F53EC.6050007@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <20060308214249.GA99366@pentarou.parodius.com> References: <440F4EBC.4030207@rogers.com> <20060308214249.GA99366@pentarou.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:38:04PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: > >> Does anyone know how/where one can obtain older ports? I need perl 5.8.7 >> for releng_5. I have checked the packages on the ftp, but the only 5.8.7 >> i found seems to be old, as it complains about missing libm.4. >> > > You want older ports, but then complain that the port is old? :D > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/ > contains perl-5.8.7_2, as shown here: > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 110 0 23 Feb 04 04:33 perl.tbz -> ../All/perl-5.8.7_2.tbz > > `pkg_add -r perl` should do what you want, unless the URL being used > by pkg_add is referring to an outdated location... > > I'm forced to use this old version, thanks, that does the job!
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