From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 18:12:30 2008 Return-Path: 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 050851065677 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:12:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8512A8FC19 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:12:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from vampire.homelinux.org (dslb-088-066-019-033.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.66.19.33]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKxQS-1LHj4t3abi-00069k; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:12:28 +0100 Received: (qmail 88775 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2008 18:12:27 -0000 Received: from fbsd8.laiers.local (192.168.4.151) by router.laiers.local with SMTP; 30 Dec 2008 18:12:27 -0000 From: Max Laier Organization: FreeBSD To: "Olivier SMEDTS" Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:12:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.1.1; i386; ; ) References: <200812301616.11132.max@love2party.net> <539c60b90812300959y4f01509egc97d4e5d82ded7d@mail.gmail.com> <367b2c980812301003y455a49edk84e82068d33e5c7a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <367b2c980812301003y455a49edk84e82068d33e5c7a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812301912.27330.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18JWeJyngSA0kHDAR1LtKkXay3SmxvQ0mSNQbc Ek8D7AsKOlSweGnz/cDn0r9+H3IrWlMD12pQm/UlfKMqfcGm3B f5oLzQSDYoNq36YbgADKw== Cc: Steve Franks , 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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:12:30 -0000 On Tuesday 30 December 2008 19:03:46 Olivier SMEDTS wrote: > 2008/12/30 Steve Franks : > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Max Laier 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. -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News