Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:13:22 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Eric Pretorious <eric@pretorious.net> Cc: scottl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_4_10? Message-ID: <20050426021322.GA2457@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <200504250112.20266.eric@pretorious.net> References: <200504250112.20266.eric@pretorious.net>
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:12:19AM -0700, Eric Pretorious wrote: > > I'm just wondering about the fate of the 4.10 release. (I've had difficulties > with 4.11 and prefer 4.10.) When I perform an installation with my 4.10 > CD-ROM, I'm not able to add packages (e.g., cvsup-without-gui) > as /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.10-RELEASE is no longer available. > > Is it still possible to maintain a 4.10 installation? (This subject isn't > addressed directly in The Handbook.) Due to the size of the main FTP site we have needed to trim down on how many of the full package sets we keep online. The precompiled packages from the 4.10 release are one of the ones taken off the main mirror sites. At this point you can only do a basic install of 4.10 and then build up from that after the initial reboot. Once it's up and running you can do one of: - Build your own ports from /usr/ports using the normal procedures for building them yourself. This might not be completely successful - some of the downloads that are needed for that old an ports tree might not be available any more. - Better, update /usr/ports using cvsup and do the builds from that. You'll get more current versions of things (and there have been security related fixes to many ports that are worth getting). - If you really want to use pre-compiled packages (see above comment saying many packages have had important security fixes - the precompiled packages won't have those fixes) are still available on the ftp-archive.freebsd.org site. ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/4.10-RELEASE/packages/ would have the 4.10 release package set on it. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |
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