Re: portsnap corrupted

From: Max Laier <max_at_love2party.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:12:26 +0100
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 19:03:46 Olivier SMEDTS wrote:
> 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".

Been there, done that ... that's why I said a *clean* portsnap fetch - on 
different boxes, too.

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