From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 8 16:00:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ACCC16A417 for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2007 16:00:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C93BC13C461 for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2007 16:00:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6963327722; Sat, 8 Sep 2007 12:00:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:00:48 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: kizAaNnawFLn+KHbF15406a4hWPDvBHdBFp1esMXzCeH 1189267248 Received: from [10.1.10.136] (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0591C1527E; Sat, 8 Sep 2007 12:00:47 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200709081510.41633.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> References: <200709081510.41633.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6B374C03-D48B-4353-AA24-D58BDC104B69@goldmark.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jeffrey Goldberg Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 11:00:46 -0500 To: Pollywog X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: snapshot is corrupt 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: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:00:49 -0000 On Sep 8, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Pollywog wrote: > > This is what I would do... > > as root, > > cd /usr/ports/ > > rm -rf * (make sure you are in /usr/ports/ when you do this) Safer would probably be rm -rf /usr/ports/ mkdir /usr/ports > portsnap fetch (this will take a while) > > portsnap extract > > After that, you only need to do 'portsnap update' when you want to > update the > ports and it should not take too long if you have updated them > recently. Ah. I somehow over looked the "update" portsnap command. Thank you. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/