Friday, December 28, 2007

pkg_add and an old FreeBSD 5.4 installation

Hellllo.

Just before the New Years, I got this need to upgrade our software on one of our servers. It requires some packages, and so I went to install them.

As I already knew, I was out of luck with pkg_add -r, since the files for FreeBSD 5.4 aren't on FreeBSD's FTP server anymore for a while already.

Minutes later, aunt Google came to help, suggesting that I read FreeBSD manual
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html

shortly, the solution was:
setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/

:)

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