Re: portsnap out-of-date?

From: Glen Barber <gjb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 23:14:12 -0400
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:11:15PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 07:57:00PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > I was surprised to see “portsnap fetch” download over 6,000 patches in order to advance the April 22 snapshot to now:
> > 
> >  # portsnap fetch
> > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 7 mirrors found.
> > Fetching snapshot tag from isc.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
> > Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
> > Updating from Tue Apr 22 05:38:17 UTC 2014 to Fri Jun  6 01:54:39 UTC 2014.
> > Fetching 4 metadata patches... done.
> > Applying metadata patches... done.
> > Fetching 4 metadata files... done.
> > Fetching 6198 patches. 
> > (6198/6198) 100.00%  done. .                                     
> > done.
> > Applying patches... 
> > 
> 
> Likely due to churn in the tree, like when things like pcre are updated.
> 

I also intended to include that we do monitor the portsnap mirrors for
staleness, and admins get alerts when the mirrors are out of sync and/or
stale.

Glen


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