FreeBSD ports/distfiles archives

[infoomatic]

Hi,

is there any public archive for pkg/ports/distfiles for FreeBSD 10.X?
Unfortunately
http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/amd64/ stopped
at 9.2

regards,

Robert

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "infoomatic" <***@gmx.at>
| To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-***@freebsd.org>
| Sent: Monday, May 31, 2021 5:57:11 AM
| Subject: FreeBSD ports/distfiles archives

| Hi,
|
| is there any public archive for pkg/ports/distfiles for FreeBSD 10.X?
| Unfortunately
| http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/amd64/ stopped
| at 9.2
|
| regards,

The readme at

http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/

states that distfiles can be fetched by name from

http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/

(that's not browsable)

[RW via freebsd-questions]

On Mon, 31 May 2021 08:41:52 -0400 (EDT)

Post by Thomas Dickey
----- Original Message -----
|
| is there any public archive for pkg/ports/distfiles for FreeBSD 10.X?
The readme at
http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/
states that distfiles can be fetched by name from
http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/

Sometimes there's a subdirectory. From ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk:


MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?= \
http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/

The port should go there automatically as a last resort. If you've
already tried to build the port then most likely the file isn't there.


You can make a port try there first by passing

-DMASTER_SITE_FREEBSD

to make. I wouldn't make it the default as it can prevent the port
picking-up a new version of a rerolled file.