Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:53:33 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where to get older ports? Message-ID: <440F525D.5090805@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <20060308214113.GA53061@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <440F4EBC.4030207@rogers.com> <20060308214113.GA53061@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:38:04PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: > >> Does anyone know how/where one can obtain older ports? >> > > From the CVS repository. > > Right, how would one do this? I'm not a cvs expert :) I actually downloaded an older ports tar file, which had 5.8.7, and manually patched it with freshports.org 's help to 5.8.7_2, but i got an error when package tried to register: Spamming /etc/manpath.config... Done. ===> Compressing manual pages for perl-5.8.7_2 ===> Registering installation for perl-5.8.7_2 pkg_create: read_plist: unknown command '@dirrmtry lib/perl5/5.8.7/auto/POSIX/SigAction' (package tools out of date?) pkg_create: read_plist: unknown command '@dirrmtry lib/perl5/5.8.7/auto/POSIX' (package tools out of date?) >> I need perl 5.8.7 >> for releng_5. I have checked the packages on the ftp, >> > > Oh, you mean packages, not ports? You'll have to look around for a > suitably stale mirror site. > > Package or port, doesn't matter, as long as i can get the damned thing to install. >> but the only 5.8.7 >> i found seems to be old, as it complains about missing libm.4. >> > > That probably means you're trying to install a 6.x package on 5.x, > i.e. it's your OS that is old ;-) > Unfortunately yes, because the application required to run on this (Plesk) has very out of date requirements.
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