Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:36:49 +0100 From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: gerard@seibercom.net Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap: Cowardly Gives Up After Failure Message-ID: <47D3E7F1.500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080309090407.01316de7@scorpio> References: <20080309090407.01316de7@scorpio>
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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. > I am not quite sure what caused this error to happen. I was thinking > though that perhaps having some sort of retry flag might be a good > idea. Maybe something like having 'portsnap' retry again in 5 minutes > or try another server or whatever. I usually run 'portsnap' from CRON so > active user participation is not really an option. > Retrying shortly after the error message usually helps for me. Regards, 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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