Is there a pkg archive?

Chris_H

Chris_H

Greetings, all.
I'm working on an old i386, running 9-STABLE. Because of some of the hardware on it, I need to use an older version, than what's currently available for 9. Point being' I've got an old nVidia video card in it, and it requires the nvidia-driver-173. Sad part is, that version' been dropped. I attempted to build it from source, but no joy. So I was wondering; given that it's got pkg(8), is there any way I can get the last available version of the package? Is there an "archive" of somewhat older packages on one of the build clusters?
And before you say it; yes, I know that driver has vulnerabilities. But I'm the only one with access to it. So there's no reason I should be concerned. If I can't trust myself. Who can I trust. ;)

--Thanks

--Chris
 
I would think there's an archive. In case you don't find anything suitable I just found 8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso in my own archive.
 
Thank you very much for the offer, OJ!
I did a little investigation, and as I feared, the ISO's don't have the nvidia-driver packages. :(
On the upside; further investigation uncovered the FreeBSD ftp (package) archive:
http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org

So my situation seems a bit more promising. :)

Thanks again, OJ.

--Chris
 
OK. While a reasonably close version of the nvidia-driver was available. It is, unfortunately, a package created with the pkg_tools version of pkg(8). I don't suppose anyone knows how to convert old pkg_tools packages to pkgng?
The closest information to my needs was: https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng
But I couldn't find anything related to conversion there, outside of converting (the system) to the new pkg(8). :(

--Chris
 
Chris_H said:
It is, unfortunately, a package created with the pkg_tools version of pkg(8). I don't suppose anyone knows how to convert old pkg_tools packages to pkgng?
Click to expand...
I actually had to do this not too long ago for a custom package I created a few years back. Just install it with pkg_add(8), it should still work. Then run pkg2ng(8) to convert the old registration to the new format. If you want to get a "new" style package you can use pkg-create(8) to create it once it's installed.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top