Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 11:42:23 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: portsnap belated complaint? Message-ID: <332bdd11-40f3-b5af-7683-aca6494abe6e@dreamchaser.org>
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Can someone explain why the portsnap update below seems to have succeeded (patches applied), but then afterwards I get the message about needing to run portsnap extract? 11.3-RELEASE-p6 (upgraded from 10.something some time ago) I believe the ports tree was generated when the OS was installed, but not sure. I'm also not sure how /usr/ports was upgraded after the OS upgrade. # portsnap fetch ... Extracting snapshot... done. ... Ports tree hasn't changed since last snapshot. No updates needed. <long time interval> # portsnap fetch update <mistakenly left fetch in the cmd> ... Fetching 4 metadata patches... done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 0 metadata files... done. Fetching 22 patches. (22/22) 100.00% done. done. Applying patches... done. Fetching 2 new ports or files... done. /usr/ports was not created by portsnap. You must run 'portsnap extract' before running 'portsnap update'.
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