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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:12:26 +0100
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        "Olivier SMEDTS" <olivier@gid0.org>
Cc:        Steve Franks <franks@rudbek.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, cperciva@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portsnap corrupted
Message-ID:  <200812301912.27330.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <367b2c980812301003y455a49edk84e82068d33e5c7a@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200812301616.11132.max@love2party.net> <539c60b90812300959y4f01509egc97d4e5d82ded7d@mail.gmail.com> <367b2c980812301003y455a49edk84e82068d33e5c7a@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tuesday 30 December 2008 19:03:46 Olivier SMEDTS wrote:
> 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".

Been there, done that ... that's why I said a *clean* portsnap fetch - on 
different boxes, too.

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