Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:04:34 +0530 From: "Amarendra Godbole" <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com> To: "Marcus Reid" <marcus@blazingdot.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap serving up bad snapshots? Message-ID: <294439d20709192234redf67fco7037856baecf9b3e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070919193422.GA7169@blazingdot.com> References: <20070919193422.GA7169@blazingdot.com>
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On 9/20/07, Marcus Reid <marcus@blazingdot.com> wrote: > I've tried this on a couple of different machines a few times over > the last couple of days, and keep getting the same results. Starting > with an empty /var/db/portsnap : > > [root@austin /var/db]# portsnap fetch > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. > Fetching public key from portsnap3.freebsd.org... done. > Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.freebsd.org... done. > Fetching snapshot metadata... done. > Fetching snapshot generated at Tue Sep 18 17:22:37 PDT 2007: > 1d76db54d472a78981f30c134f34eea49141d183d48127100% of 49 MB 90 kBps 00m00s > Extracting snapshot... done. > Verifying snapshot integrity... gunzip: snap/2bafbd0d8edc7a7cfa7e19833986ae4032f82006fd0d65cba9c4a75b432b5c8e.gz: unexpected end of file [...] > Some files in the archive are valid, but many seem to be > truncated. Is there a big problem with portsnap right now? [...] If your internet connection if flaky, or if you get in data through a proxy - this problem pops up. I used to have this problem when my internet connection was slow and flaky - once we added more bandwidth, it has gone away completely. -Amarendra
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