From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Dec 30 18:03:48 2008
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 876D51065670;
	Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:03:48 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from olivier@gid0.org)
Received: from mail-bw0-f19.google.com (mail-bw0-f19.google.com
	[209.85.218.19])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E029C8FC18;
	Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:03:47 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from olivier@gid0.org)
Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so14414513bwz.19
	for <multiple recipients>; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:03:46 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.223.113.199 with SMTP id b7mr10885837faq.83.1230660226113;
	Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:03:46 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.223.112.75 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:03:46 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <367b2c980812301003y455a49edk84e82068d33e5c7a@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:03:46 +0100
From: "Olivier SMEDTS" <olivier@gid0.org>
To: "Steve Franks" <franks@rudbek.com>
In-Reply-To: <539c60b90812300959y4f01509egc97d4e5d82ded7d@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <200812301616.11132.max@love2party.net>
	<539c60b90812300959y4f01509egc97d4e5d82ded7d@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
	cperciva@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: portsnap corrupted
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:03:48 -0000

2008/12/30 Steve Franks <franks@rudbek.com>:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Max Laier <max@love2party.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> long story short: a clean "portsnap fetch && portsnap extract" doesn't extract
>> all ports that should be there according to cvsweb and others.
>>
>
> This seems a common question.  I'm the last one who got help on it.
> Basically, in my mind the error sounds like there's a problem with the
> server, but it's really on your machine.  What you need to do is find
> the file where portsnap fetch downloads the ports tarball, and delete
> it, then start over.  It's somewhere under /var - google for my last
> thread, and you'll find the reply of the good gentleman who helped me
> if you can't grep the exact path.

When I want to start over a fresh db (because portsnap keeps a lot of
files since the first snapshot), I just "rm -rf /var/db/portsnap/*"
then "portsnap fetch extract".

Cheers


-- 
Olivier Smedts                                                 _
                                        ASCII ribbon campaign ( )
e-mail: olivier@gid0.org        - against HTML email & vCards  X
www: http://www.gid0.org    - against proprietary attachments / \

  "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde :
  ceux qui comprennent le binaire,
  et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas."