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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:49:34 +0100
From:      Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
To:        Dave Overton <dave@syix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portaudit and portsnap acting silly.
Message-ID:  <20071227234934.GA86902@megatron.madpilot.net>
In-Reply-To: <006f01c848bd$cbcda550$26714dd1@syix.com>
References:  <006f01c848bd$cbcda550$26714dd1@syix.com>

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On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:22:18AM -0800, Dave Overton wrote:
> Portaudit does this:  
> # portaudit -Fa 
> auditfile.tbz                                 100% of   46 kB 6001 kBps
> portaudit: Database too old.
> Old database restored.
> portaudit: Download failed.
>  
>  
> Portsnap does this:
> # portsnap fetch
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have!
> Cowardly refusing to downgrade from Thu Dec 27 08:10:58 PST 2007
> to Mon Dec  3 17:04:28 PST 2007.
>  
> 
> In case anyone knows anyone who can beat them back into submission.

Are you using a proxy server. I encountered similar problems with a
proxy. In fact I usually set up squid not to cache
portsnap[0-9].freebsd.org. Never seen such a problem with portaudit
though...

Hope this helps.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>



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