Where is 4.5, 4.6, etc. on the FTP sites ?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Sep 18 20:53:12 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Sep 18), Josh Brooks said:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> > Do you have to pay for the space taken up by your faucet handles?
> >
> > Try www.freebsdmirrors.org for a list of sites that have the disk
> > space to keep old releases.
> 
> Thank you - this is much appreciated, and helped me greatly.
> 
> However, what should I do with 4.6.1-RC2 ?  It is not on any of the
> mirrors above, and I cannot tell /stand/sysinstall to go ahead and
> grab either 4.6 or 4.6.2 instead ...
> 
> So, if 4.6.1-RC2 does not exist anywhere, is it possible to get
> sysinstall to connect and ask for a different version instead ? 
> Would /usr/src from 4.6 be closer to 4.6.1-RC2, or would /usr/src
> from 4.6.2 be closer ?

4.6.2 would be better, since it has bugfixes not in 4.6.1.  If you need
the exact 4.6.1 sources, you can always cvsup them.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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