pkg_add for 5.2.1 no longer working...

[Florent Thoumie]

Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Darryl L. Miles wrote:
>
>
>>My situation is that my ISP pre-installed quite a number of boxes with
>>5.2.1 on my behalf, thinking they would have better knowledge of FreeBSD
>>to do the right thing for me.
>
>
> Unfortunately I think it is the case that for someone without an
> in-depth knowledge of the FreeBSD development process, they should
> have installed 4.10 or 4.11 for you.
>
>
>>If it comes down to having to reinstall all the boxes (at my cost)
>>unfortunately FreeBSD won't be the first choice to put back on them,
>>since the application doesn't care and my experience if far greater
>>other flavours of unix.
>
>
> One of your options is to try the 'binary upgrade' which one of our
> volunteers maintains (URL, anyone?)  But this may be a more advanced
> topic than someone not as familiar with FreeBSD could tackle.

	Website is http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/.
	FreeBSD Update is part of Colin Percival (great) work, it lives
	under security/freebsd-update.

                                           -- flz
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