On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:05:40 -0400 (EDT), Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > Since 2.4 is out, and we'll have binary pkgsrc packages for it soon, the > 2.0 packages are due to be removed. If this will cause you trouble, > please speak up. > > The plan is to keep packages for the current release (2.4) and the > previous release (2.2), which gives us a binary package retention > schedule of about a year.
If possible, I would recommend (and request) keeping packages available for at least two previous releases rather than just one. I just finally upgraded my work station to 2.2.1 finally from 1.10.1 only about a week ago and we still have other work stations around here that are running 1.10.x. In fact, our firewall/misc server is still running 1.8.0-RELEASE. A lot of our machines get pretty old because lack of time and necessity to upgrading them. You know the adage: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". By the way, I cannot get to the package directories to any previous release on any of the mirrors today. I just get error 550 "Permission denied". I was trying to access the 2.2.1 packages. I tried ftp://ftp.twaren.net/BSD/DragonFlyBSD/packages/ ftp://www.theshell.com/pub/DragonFly/packages/ ftp://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/DragonFly/packages/ On chlamydia I can get to the DragonFly-2.3.1 directory but nothing older. On theshell, the only directory I seem to be able to access is DragonFly-2.4.0-upload - Vince