From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 20 05:59:39 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0887416A417 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:59:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amarendra.godbole@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0A5713C45E for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:59:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amarendra.godbole@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so353248rvb for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:59:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ihGtzM8jSoLm++ZHQ2BXikQzkgxUuUZHsPTN7v0LH3s=; b=onal6WJMFH1J7eFV3dxYMsffA5vnnTFovT3iPqT/Pz9d6vwm4v8GnviJMDxwW0fLCz4IV/uRNoiNTpCZV8OgU9XmHw7Z/UuZ8tgMkx4LhrItPpMbxw0mSQYUXx53bjPIwQUT+VGTUSymLnpjTMUzMZ4lXgPAaqe9k04iW8BAlO4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CirPvd2GV4ASnT1dkso+3V05wsLFnJJLS8h/7voo+B3OqwbOlKTohHFHHe9qkJ72A48tkxZRLq5Ivzpu2grlbNDENPlL334BWJ5WXsxoz+EJGgJ4ymQ7jxI0Hd47yzuHbUcB9amIreX2HX1KMOOY9U/hprtKgVVyEOfuqT4CRxQ= Received: by 10.141.167.5 with SMTP id u5mr379211rvo.1190266474485; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.158.14 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <294439d20709192234redf67fco7037856baecf9b3e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:04:34 +0530 From: "Amarendra Godbole" To: "Marcus Reid" In-Reply-To: <20070919193422.GA7169@blazingdot.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070919193422.GA7169@blazingdot.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap serving up bad snapshots? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:59:39 -0000 On 9/20/07, Marcus Reid 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