Where to get older ports?

[Mike Jakubik]

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 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 by pkg_add is referring to an outdated location...
>
>   

I'm forced to use this old version, thanks, that does the job!