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To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4F6ZZL6zgnz3lG4 X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=d8MiFJRe; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of walterp@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:4864:20::42e as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=walterp@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.27 / 15.00]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2607:f8b0:4000::/36:c]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.27)[-0.266]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::42e:from]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20161025]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::42e:from:127.0.2.255]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::42e:from]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:18:03 -0000 > Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:14:24 -0500 > From: Doug McIntyre > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD.org pkg mirror for older versions? > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 11:16:01AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On 3/24/21 11:08 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > Are there any sites/cdns that maintain older versions of pkg repos that are > > > reliable? > ... > > > You are trying to do something that is not designed/supported by any > > system vendor (not only FreeBSD), and it is something system > > administrators will not do normally. > ... > > I wish there was a way to grab old packages, when I run into bugs in > the latest versions that weren't in the earlier versions. Or dropped > features, or added features that interfer with something else that > will take you 6 weeks to clear. > > Thankfully I have a big enough pool of machines, that I can usually > find the older package in one of the package caches of another machine. > > But still, would be nice to load the older package back directly. > > > Packages are built from sources. You might look at getting the packages sources and then building them locally. IIRC make package will build a package from your sources. I mention this because reconstructing the package sources should be doable (old sources are often archived). There are package building tools that automate many of these steps. Walter -- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis