Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:39:13 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Downloading ports tree again Message-ID: <478CB781.5040809@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <1200402658.23101.1231331249@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1200402658.23101.1231331249@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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Trey Sizemore wrote: > I have used portsnap to download the ports tree. Recently, I've removed > /usr/ports/* and now need to download the ports tree again. > > However, running portnap fetch results in: > "Ports tree hasn't changed since last snapshot > No updates needed" > > How can I 'reset' portsnap and get the ports tree again? > > Thanks! > I would first try a "portsnap extract" and see if this extracts the whole ports tree again (from what I understand from the man page, it will) Otherwise, portsnap saves its state in /var/db/portsnap. You could try deleting the files in there.
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