Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 13:42:49 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where to get older ports? Message-ID: <20060308214249.GA99366@pentarou.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <440F4EBC.4030207@rogers.com> References: <440F4EBC.4030207@rogers.com>
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On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:38:04PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Does anyone know how/where one can obtain older ports? I need perl 5.8.7 > for releng_5. I have checked the packages on the ftp, but the only 5.8.7 > i found seems to be old, as it complains about missing libm.4. You want older ports, but then complain that the port is old? :D ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/ contains perl-5.8.7_2, as shown here: lrwxr-xr-x 1 110 0 23 Feb 04 04:33 perl.tbz -> ../All/perl-5.8.7_2.tbz `pkg_add -r perl` should do what you want, unless the URL being used by pkg_add is referring to an outdated location... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. |
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