Continuing problem with "portsnap"

[Lystic Emsen]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Leslie Jensen <leslie at eskk.nu> wrote:

>
>
> 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?
>>>
>>>
Can you try editing your /etc/portsnap.conf ?

SERVERNAME=eu.portsnap.FreeBSD.org

That should make it look for servers closer to you first.


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>  Working from the UK
>>
>> [root at 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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