Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:51:41 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsnap Message-ID: <20121119155141.46107723@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <loom.20121119T160541-423@post.gmane.org> References: <loom.20121119T160541-423@post.gmane.org>
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:21:19 +0000 (UTC) jb wrote: > Hi, > have i caught portsnap with its pants down ? > > # rm -rf /usr/ports > # portsnap fetch update > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. > Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done. > Fetching snapshot metadata... done. > Updating from Sun Nov 11 15:54:03 CET 2012 to Mon Nov 19 15:34:57 CET > 2012. Fetching 4 metadata patches... done. > Applying metadata patches... done. > Fetching 0 metadata files... done. > Fetching 24085 > patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90... ... > 0....24060....24070....24080.. done. > Applying patches... done. > Fetching 18 new ports or files... done. > /usr/ports was not created by portsnap. > You must run 'portsnap extract' before running 'portsnap update'. > # > # ls /usr/ports > ls: /usr/ports: No such file or directory > # > > ... > So, why did it do so much work (ca. 5 min, 24085 patches), even > claiming to have applied patches, before telling me the env was not > properly set up ? jb You gave portsnap two commands - one succeeded and the other failed. "fetch" downloads and applies patches to the compressed snapshot. "update" uses the compressed snapshot to update a pre-existing ports tree created by an "extract"
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