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Date:      Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:07:24 -0800
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation difficulties
Message-ID:  <4ee5b63c.ctpzeJdTyETAUTAx%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EE484F9.2050403@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> 7.2 is out of support now, see:
> http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html
>
> Inter-alia this means that there won't be packages available
> on the FTP servers specifically for that version ...

What, exactly, _is_ the policy on retention of the -release package
sets?  8.1 _is_ still supported (until sometime in 2012 IIRC), but
ftp.freebsd.org seems to contain only 8.2-release and 8-stable.



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