Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 01:06:56 -0500 From: "Peggy Wilkins" <enlil65@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why do I have to keep doing "portsnap extract"? Message-ID: <1789c2360605042306s11d6790ctd910cdf9cf468f86@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <445ACD04.5030505@freebsd.org> References: <1789c2360605041440p462ada3clb8c35d17d0d3e43d@mail.gmail.com> <20060504233208.GB811@sentinelchicken.net> <1789c2360605042036i12d1f562q935350362288087f@mail.gmail.com> <445ACD04.5030505@freebsd.org>
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On 5/4/06, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote: > Peggy Wilkins wrote: > > On 5/4/06, Jason Morgan <jwm-freebsd-questions@sentinelchicken.net> wro= te: > >> Did you run `extract' after your original `fetch'? > > > > Yes, I did; I followed the instructions exactly. I ran portsnap for > > the first time a couple weeks ago after which I successfully did a > > bunch of portupgrades. Then the ports tree sat there on my disk > > untouched for a couple of weeks until I ran "portsnap fetch update" > > today. For some reason it insisted that I needed to run "extract" > > when as far as I can tell that shouldn't have been necessary. > > Do you have a ".portsnap.INDEX" file in your ports tree? Yes; I don't know if it was there before I ran portsnap today, though. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1230186 May 4 16:39 .portsnap.INDEX plw
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