Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:10:44 +0100 From: "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Cc: gerard@seibercom.net, cperciva@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap: Cowardly Gives Up After Failure Message-ID: <e890cae60803100310k304d59aas73ddb74fc5b64c33@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080309144915.GD1097@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <20080309090407.01316de7@scorpio> <47D3E7F1.500@gmail.com> <20080309143850.GB1097@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20080309144915.GD1097@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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2008/3/9, Simon L. Nielsen <simon@freebsd.org>: > On 2008.03.09 15:38:53 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > On 2008.03.09 14:36:49 +0100, Rene Ladan wrote: > > > Gerard schreef: > > > > I just saw this 'portsnap' error message for the first time. > > > > > > > > > > > > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. > > > > Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... done. > > > > Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have! > > > > Cowardly refusing to downgrade from Fri Mar 7 15:23:43 EST 2008 > > > > to Fri Mar 7 10:15:54 EST 2008. > > > > > > > I see this happening about half the times I run portsnap. The > > > erroneous image is always from March 7. > > > > The most likely cause of the problem is that the data portsnap is > > trying to fetch is out of date either bacause of the mirror being > > (partially?) broken or e.g. a broken proxy in between. > > > > Is the working or non-working related to a particular portsnap server? > > > OK, I just reproduced it - it seems portsnap2.FreeBSD.org is out of > date. I have poked the admin of the particular mirror (quite easy as > it's Colin ;-) ). > portsnap3 also has issues (20080310 1008 UTC), while portsnap2 is ok at this time : 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 Mon Mar 10 06:30:19 CET 2008 to Sat Mar 8 23:51:56 CET 2008. Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Mon Mar 10 06:30:19 CET 2008 to Mon Mar 10 09:23:20 CET 2008. Rene -- http://www.rene-ladan.nl/ GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net)
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