Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 20:56:52 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Peggy Wilkins <enlil65@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why do I have to keep doing "portsnap extract"? Message-ID: <445ACD04.5030505@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1789c2360605042036i12d1f562q935350362288087f@mail.gmail.com> References: <1789c2360605041440p462ada3clb8c35d17d0d3e43d@mail.gmail.com> <20060504233208.GB811@sentinelchicken.net> <1789c2360605042036i12d1f562q935350362288087f@mail.gmail.com>
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Peggy Wilkins wrote: > On 5/4/06, Jason Morgan <jwm-freebsd-questions@sentinelchicken.net> wrote: >> Did you run `extract' after your original `fetch'? > > Yes, I did; I followed the instructions exactly. I ran portsnap for > the first time a couple weeks ago after which I successfully did a > bunch of portupgrades. Then the ports tree sat there on my disk > untouched for a couple of weeks until I ran "portsnap fetch update" > today. For some reason it insisted that I needed to run "extract" > when as far as I can tell that shouldn't have been necessary. Do you have a ".portsnap.INDEX" file in your ports tree? Colin Percival
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