portsnap DOESN'T WORK

[Colin Percival]

Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> BTW, I didn't want to bother you, but I've had a similar problem
> on a very slow link. Portsnap tends to time out (in spite of the
> download is in progress, bytes are coming - just very slowly)
> and says that <something> is  corrupt. I think time outs should
> be tuned.

What does "portsnap --debug fetch" report?  Are you using a proxy?
Which part is timing out, downloading the initial snapshot tarball
or downloading lots of patches?

Colin Percival