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[Kevin Kinsey]

Marty Landman wrote:
> I've just reinstalled FBSD 4.8 from the mini-iso on an old box (PII-133 
> w/ 3
> GB on two hd's). The problem I'm running into is that my ports are looking
> for old, outdated packages, I think.
> 
> So going from
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.htmltried 
> 
> to install cvsup to do a port upgrade:
> 
> mrwilhelm# pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui
> Error: FTP Unable to get
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/Latest/cvsup-without-gui.tgz: 
> 
> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> pkg_add: unable to fetch '
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/Latest/cvsup-without-gui.tgz' 
> 
> by URL
> mrwilhelm#
> 
> Same problem though, how can I tell my system where to get access to
> the 4.8stuff?
> 

Somewhere back in 2004? :-D

Seriously, if you can find any package at all, I'd try
it.  I don't know that cvsup changes that much.  You
can use fetch or FTP to grab from a newer location
and add the package directly, e.g.

# cd
# fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/path/to/some/real.pkg.tbz
# pkg_add real.pkg.tbz

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey


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