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Date:      Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:19:13 +0000
From:      Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: portsnap failing
Message-ID:  <200602270919.13444.work@ashleymoran.me.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200602242107.02109.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com>
References:  <200602231133.22224.ashley.moran@codeweavers.net> <200602242107.02109.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com>

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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



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