Re: [pfSense-discussion] freebsd 6.2 ports archive

2008-03-13 Thread Scott Ullrich 
On 3/13/08, Paul M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,
  I was looking for the syslog-ng package to install on my pfsense boxes,
  and discovered that the main freebsd site no longer has the ports for
  that release - only 6.3.

  I found the ftp.de.freebsd.org site still had it, so I did an evil hack
  to the hosts file thus:
  213.83.42.56ftp.freebsd.org

  and I was able to pkg_add -r syslog-ng.

  anyway, my point is that anyone wanting to play with pfsense1.2 release
  and needs access to the ports might want to consider maintaining their
  own archive of the freebsd downloads otherwise they'll lose out!

  or, perhaps, should pfsense.org website keep a mirror for this purpose?

We are working on it: http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=179

Scott

Re: [pfSense-discussion] freebsd 6.2 ports archive

2008-03-13 Thread Paul M 
Scott Ullrich wrote:

  or, perhaps, should pfsense.org website keep a mirror for this purpose?
 
 We are working on it: http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=179

freebsd is nice in that the paths to the files are the same on each
mirror, so hacking the hosts file made it work with no changes; the
equivalent path was this:

ftp://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/

a bit of wget -r should suffice?