portsnap failing

[Ashley Moran]

On Saturday 25 February 2006 03:07, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
> Why are you deleting the portsnap files. That's a 39 MB file that you
> have to download everytime you do that. The idea is to just download
> the patches necessary to update the ports tree after 'portsnap fetch',
> 'portsnap install' has been run once. After that, all you need to do is
> run 'portsnap fetch update', you'll get plenty of action from that. I
> think by now you're going to have to remove the ports tree and start
> over. Why not do it an easier way.

I deleted the portsnap files because the incremental update didn't work, so I 
wanted to know if it would work from scratch.  I'm not in a habit of deleting 
them every time I update the ports tree!  For some reason though, neither 
works now, although they fail in (apparently) different ways.

Ashley