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Date:      Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:44:03 +0100
From:      Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
To:        Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Continuing problem with "portsnap"
Message-ID:  <4CCFF983.4020005@eskk.nu>
In-Reply-To: <4CCFF82A.8080905@unsane.co.uk>
References:  <20101102073440.5b7f6e74@scorpio> <4CCFF82A.8080905@unsane.co.uk>

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On 2010-11-02 12:38, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
> On 02/11/2010 11:34, Jerry wrote:
>> Since "portsnap' has been failing on my system, I tried a different
>> approach and decided to rebuild the port entirely rather than just
>> download an updated snapshot. This is the result of just such a
>> venture:
>>
>> portsnap fetch extract
>> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
>> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap6.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap4.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>>
>> You will notice that all the mirrors appear broken. Now, I can reach the
>> FreeBSD web site, and every other site I commonly visit without a
>> problem; therefore, I believe the problem resides somewhere with the
>> portsnap mirrors.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm or further thesis this thesis?
>>
> Working from the UK
>
> [root@seaurchin ~]# portsnap fetch
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
> Updating from Tue Nov  2 02:25:26 GMT 2010 to Tue Nov  2 11:26:20 GMT 2010.
> Fetching 4 metadata patches... done.
> Applying metadata patches... done.
> Fetching 0 metadata files... done.
> Fetching 9 patches..... done.
> Applying patches... done.
> Fetching 3 new ports or files... done.
>
>


Working from Sweden, maybe a little slow!
As you can see it can't find any mirrors.


portsnap fetch
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Updating from Tue Nov  2 09:57:27 CET 2010 to Tue Nov  2 12:26:20 CET 2010.
Fetching 4 metadata patches... done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 0 metadata files... done.
Fetching 4 patches... done.
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 1 new ports or files... done.



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