Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 18:48:12 +0200 From: Christos Chatzaras <chris@cretaforce.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap metadata corruption Message-ID: <52BDAEAB-2F44-44DE-B6D5-E0939EB6A1D3@cretaforce.gr> In-Reply-To: <20191104164328.11a35df1@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <CANR6Wa4BTq2TmEzCFORsgvrhy4-jSz5yb8zELnY0Q6GF%2BUWqvw@mail.gmail.com> <20191104164328.11a35df1@gumby.homeunix.com>
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> On 4 Nov 2019, at 18:43, RW via freebsd-questions = <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 09:12:17 +0000 > Arthur Barlow wrote: >=20 >> When trying to fetch the latest update for portsnap today I got the >> following message: >>=20 >> Fetching 4 metadata files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open >> adce305cc15ca8f18dc8ca52e8c91a04ac3f49638d405e5f96abdb01fd70f501.gz: >> No such file or directory >> metadata is corrupt. >=20 > You can delete the contents of /var/db/portsnap/ and it will be > recreated by downloading a new snapshot tarball. >=20 > Any information about the ports directory is in the ports directory > itself, so you don't need to delete it or do a new 'extract'. Had the same issue today. I will try again tomorrow.
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