Where to get older ports?

[Mike Jakubik]

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lib/perl5/5.8.7/auto/POSIX/SigAction' (package tools out of date?)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lib/perl5/5.8.7/auto/POSIX' (package tools out of date?)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(Plesk) has very out of date requirements.