Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:42:02 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Incoming Mail List <mailist@whoweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is packages-6.2-release? Message-ID: <47DC50BA.6000009@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200803151925.m2FJPKe2084851@whoweb.com> References: <200803151925.m2FJPKe2084851@whoweb.com>
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Incoming Mail List wrote: >> I have only ONE question. >> Where is packages-6.2-release? I have FreeBSD 6.2, and tuning it. >> Where I can download packages for my freebsd version? > > Thats a great question, and it appears that the 6.2-release packages > repository has been removed. Looking in ftp.freebsd.org I see 5-stable, > 6-stable, 6.3-release, 7-stable, 7.0-release, and 8-current. There is > no 6.2-release directory so "pkg_add -r" returns an error for any package > that you try to load. Very aggravating. > > Apparently the release team is only providing packages for the most > recent streams. I'd like to know why that is, and also why they insist > on listing "packages" under "ports". The documentation makes it very > clear there is a difference between the two. Why anyone on the release > team thinks it's intuitive to look for a ready-to-go "package" under > a "ports" directory which has been defined by documentation as something > that needs to be compiled, is a mystery to simpletons like myself. Disk space is not infinite. ftp-archive has old releases. packages are built from ports and are part of the ports collection. Kris
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