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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