From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 09:20:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E6416A420 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:20:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from work@ashleymoran.me.uk) Received: from mail.dc-servers.com (mail3.dc-servers.com [83.243.101.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C74343D45 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:20:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from work@ashleymoran.me.uk) Received: (qmail 11407 invoked by uid 399); 27 Feb 2006 09:20:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO alfie.jigsawhq.com) (work@ashleymoran.me.uk@213.106.224.113) by mail.dc-servers.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2006 09:20:36 -0000 From: Ashley Moran Organization: Codeweavers Ltd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:19:13 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602231133.22224.ashley.moran@codeweavers.net> <200602242107.02109.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200602242107.02109.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602270919.13444.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> Cc: "Donald J. O'Neill" Subject: Re: portsnap failing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:20:39 -0000 On Saturday 25 February 2006 03:07, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > Why are you deleting the portsnap files. That's a 39 MB file that you > have to download everytime you do that. The idea is to just download > the patches necessary to update the ports tree after 'portsnap fetch', > 'portsnap install' has been run once. After that, all you need to do is > run 'portsnap fetch update', you'll get plenty of action from that. I > think by now you're going to have to remove the ports tree and start > over. Why not do it an easier way. I deleted the portsnap files because the incremental update didn't work, so I wanted to know if it would work from scratch. I'm not in a habit of deleting them every time I update the ports tree! For some reason though, neither works now, although they fail in (apparently) different ways. Ashley