2008/12/30 Steve Franks <franks_at_rudbek.com>: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Max Laier <max_at_love2party.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> long story short: a clean "portsnap fetch && portsnap extract" doesn't extract >> all ports that should be there according to cvsweb and others. >> > > This seems a common question. I'm the last one who got help on it. > Basically, in my mind the error sounds like there's a problem with the > server, but it's really on your machine. What you need to do is find > the file where portsnap fetch downloads the ports tarball, and delete > it, then start over. It's somewhere under /var - google for my last > thread, and you'll find the reply of the good gentleman who helped me > if you can't grep the exact path. When I want to start over a fresh db (because portsnap keeps a lot of files since the first snapshot), I just "rm -rf /var/db/portsnap/*" then "portsnap fetch extract". Cheers -- Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: olivier_at_gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas."Received on Tue Dec 30 2008 - 17:03:48 UTC
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