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. -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier_at_freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier_at_EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and NewsReceived on Tue Dec 30 2008 - 17:12:30 UTC
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