Solved Lifecycle of ports repository

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Hello,

The FreeBSD website mentions that only recent versions of FreeBSD are supported by the port tree. However, I have two questions:
  1. Are older versions of pre-built ports still available? For example, could someone fetch a prebuild package for FreeBSD 9 or 10 today? For how long are out-of-date package repositories kept online?
  2. Same question but with the source code of ports.
Thank you !
 
  1. Packages for 8, 9 and 10 i385/amd64 are still available but never updated. http://pkg.freebsd.org/
  2. The entire history of the ports tree is in subversion. Distfiles are not saved, ports download them from upstream.
 
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