Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:14:24 -0500 From: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD.org pkg mirror for older versions? Message-ID: <YFzhEObOXTx1JijJ@geeks.org> In-Reply-To: <8a151ed5-ebce-aad5-714f-457309059d6e@kicp.uchicago.edu> References: <CAHieY7QNY%2B-hAZJ45Nk73k8S9nS9E1xAxj0auo-6kPdBb==9=w@mail.gmail.com> <8a151ed5-ebce-aad5-714f-457309059d6e@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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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.
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