Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:17:50 -0700 From: Walter Parker <walterp@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD.org pkg mirror for older versions? Message-ID: <CAMPTd_D78ZDcxfZ9SpN8S-f8XHyHKTM88moe=FvaWm-EXjgd%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <mailman.21499.1616709853.69582.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.21499.1616709853.69582.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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> 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> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 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. > > > Packages are built from sources. You might look at getting the packages sources and then building them locally. IIRC make package will build a package from your sources. I mention this because reconstructing the package sources should be doable (old sources are often archived). There are package building tools that automate many of these steps. Walter -- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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