Bug 110333

Summary:	Cannot find free access off old-releases mirrors
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Hufschmitt <mh>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Hufschmitt 2007-03-15 14:20:20 UTC

I would like to access packages of old-releases of FreeBSD.
ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org requires authentification.
How to access old-releases ?

Fix: 

1 login/password access to ftp-archive
or
2 url to open european ftp-archive mirror
or
3 trying to do a Instition local mirror (1 or 2 required)
How-To-Repeat: $sudo pkg_add -r trafshow
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/Latest/trafshow.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/Latest/trafshow.tbz' by URL

Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2007-03-15 17:18:29 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

None of the ftp servers have package archives that go back as far as 6.0R 
anymore, due to space constraints; only a few have 6.1R at this point.  Your 
best choice is to upgrade to 6.2.