How do i fix the broken FTP structure of freebsd 7.0?

[Ken Smith]

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 01:42 -0700, wac wrote:
> vantline# pkg_add -r dkimproxy-1.1
> Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7
> .0-release/Latest/dkimproxy-1.1.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no
> access)
> pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-
> 7.0-release/Latest/dkimproxy-1.1.tbz' by URL
> vantline#
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/
> 
> packages 10/23/2006 12:00:00 AM
> packages-5-stable 4/4/2008 12:00:00 AM
> packages-6-stable 4/18/2009 6:16:00 PM
> packages-6.4-release 11/21/2008 1:33:00 PM
> packages-7-stable 4/18/2009 10:06:00 PM
> packages-7.1-release 12/22/2008 11:30:00 PM
> packages-7.2-release 4/21/2009 5:18:00 PM
> packages-8-current 4/16/2009 2:38:00 PM
> packages-current 2/9/2008 12:00:00 AM
> packages-stable 3/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
> 
> packages-7.0-release is completely missing.
> 
> Is there a way to fix this? How? What should I put in PACKAGESITE?
> 
> Upgrading is unfortunately not an option for me.
> 

The old releases are available here, in roughly the normal layout:

  ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/

The ports are in the ports/ sub-directory while the release bits
themselves are in the old-releases/ sub-directory.


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                                                Ken Smith
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