Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:19:13 +0000 From: Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: portsnap failing Message-ID: <200602270919.13444.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <200602242107.02109.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> References: <200602231133.22224.ashley.moran@codeweavers.net> <200602242107.02109.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com>
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On Saturday 25 February 2006 03:07, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > Why are you deleting the portsnap files. That's a 39 MB file that you > have to download everytime you do that. The idea is to just download > the patches necessary to update the ports tree after 'portsnap fetch', > 'portsnap install' has been run once. After that, all you need to do is > run 'portsnap fetch update', you'll get plenty of action from that. I > think by now you're going to have to remove the ports tree and start > over. Why not do it an easier way. I deleted the portsnap files because the incremental update didn't work, so I wanted to know if it would work from scratch. I'm not in a habit of deleting them every time I update the ports tree! For some reason though, neither works now, although they fail in (apparently) different ways. Ashley
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