portsnap

[jb]

RW <rwmaillists <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> ... 
> > ...
> > So, why did it do so much work (ca. 5 min, 24085 patches), even
> > claiming to have applied patches, before telling me the env was not
> > properly set up ? jb
> 
> You gave portsnap two commands - one succeeded and the other failed.
> 
> "fetch" downloads and applies patches to the compressed 
> snapshot. "update" uses the compressed snapshot to update a
> pre-existing ports tree created by an "extract" 
> ...

OK.
But this looks like a flaky entry validation - it should be rejected up front
as invalid entry, even if it applied to the second part - "update".
Because the effect of processing the entire entry "fetch" plus "update" is lost
anyway.
jb