Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:42:10 -0500 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: "Zyumbilev, Peter" <peter@aboutsupport.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release Message-ID: <50E44742.2060009@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <50E3EEA2.1090906@freebsd.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301020018230.42551@fledge.watson.org> <50E3DAB0.9020001@FreeBSD.org> <50E3E926.9010507@aboutsupport.com> <50E3EEA2.1090906@freebsd.org>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 02/01/2013 08:00, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: >> In this case for a new Nas4free machine, will you recommend to base it >> on 9.0 or 9.1 ? > > Either. Whichever one works best for you, and if you can't distinguish > them on performance or bug-fixes, choose 9.1. > > However, don't fall into the trap of thinking 'because I'm running OS > version 9.0 I have to use the binary packages for 9.0.' You don't. And > in fact, if it's more than a month or so since the OS was released, you > should be checking for updates. > > Unfortunately, since the security problem, there haven't been updates to > package sets for *any* OS versions available. So your best recourse is > to pull down a copy of the ports tree and build what packages you need > for yourself. This is time consuming, but not particularly difficult. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > what is the status of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-current/Latest/ which is on the ftp servers?
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