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Subject: Re: Why do I have to keep doing "portsnap extract"?
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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