[FreeBSD 7.0-CUR/gcc 4.2/portsnap]: portsnap fetch reports illegal portsnap tag!

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue May 22 19:55:54 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:04:11PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Hello out here,
> since I upgrade my box with the lates FreeBSD 7.0-CUR/AMD64 and gcc 4.2, 
> I do not have access to ports via portsnap anymore. Portsnap stops 
> running with this error:
> 
> # portsnap fetch update
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... Illegal instruction
> invalid snapshot tag.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... Illegal instruction
> invalid snapshot tag.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... Illegal instruction
> invalid snapshot tag.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
> 
> I removed everything what's in /var/db/portsnap/, but this doesn't help, 
> it seems a checksum isn't calculated correctly. Alternatively I used cvsup.
> 
> Is there anything wrong? I remember myself of issues with OpenSSL and 
> gcc 4.2, so due to the calculation of the checksum this might cause the 
> error.

See my reply from when you asked this same question yesterday.

Kris


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