Freebsd 8.3 packages missing?! 404 Everywhere.

[burnsl]

Where did they all go?

How do I install packages for the latest 2.1.4 i386 PFsense installation?

[BBcan177]

Hi burnsl,

Take a look at this thread:

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=78935.0

[burnsl]

Thanks!

I had searched but didn't find that particular post.

I also had a different solution.

I searched http://www.filewatcher.com for the string:

"/ports/i386/packages-8.3-release/Latest/perl.tbz"

this found all the mirrors and copies out there.

Now, most of these links (like 90%) are dead, however by using a firefox plugin called DownloadThemAll, i told it to start a download of all the sites at once.

Then I watched for which sites actually started a download, and i chose the one thar was the fastest and went there.
Sure enough that site had a functioning copy if the 8.3 package tree.

So i installed that and a Compat6xxx package.