Why do I have to keep doing "portsnap extract"?

[Colin Percival]

Peggy Wilkins wrote:
> On 5/4/06, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Do you have a ".portsnap.INDEX" file in your ports tree?
> 
> Yes; I don't know if it was there before I ran portsnap today, though.
> 
> -rw-r--r--     1 root  wheel   1230186 May  4 16:39 .portsnap.INDEX

Does 'portsnap update' work now?

Colin Percival