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Date:      Sat, 17 Sep 2016 19:41:07 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portsnap question
Message-ID:  <20160917194107.519a48f4@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160917140920.GA2033@e733>
References:  <b3664960-c54d-07f6-e766-52beed4ce45c@hiwaay.net> <20160917140920.GA2033@e733>

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On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:09:20 +0300
Aleksander Alekseev wrote:

> > [root@kabini1, /etc, 8:10:30am] 353 % portsnap fetch update
> > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 7 mirrors found.
> > Fetching snapshot tag from your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
> > Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
> > Updating from Sat Aug 27 01:19:19 MCDT 2016 to Sat Sep 17 04:21:58
> > MCDT 2016.
> > Fetching 5 metadata patches... done.
> > Applying metadata patches... done.
> > Fetching 5 metadata files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open 
> > 39ffac906fafd69bfbba7c63d15dccb8ccbc8adaa755a212be13200b41f1d215.gz:
> > No such file or directory
> > metadata is corrupt.  
> 
> Same issue here (11.0-RC2). Must be some sort of race condition or
> something in portspap since second execution of `portsnap fetch
> update` always works flawlessly. 

It doesn't sound too serious then. Under other circumstances I'd
suggest deleting everything under /var/db/portsnap/, but that allows
the possibility of the portsnap MITM attack, which I don't think has
been fixed yet.



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