portsnap out-of-date?

Tim Kientzle tim at kientzle.com
Fri Jun 6 03:04:33 UTC 2014


I was surprised to see “portsnap fetch” download over 6,000 patches in order to advance the April 22 snapshot to now:

 # portsnap fetch
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 7 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from isc.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Updating from Tue Apr 22 05:38:17 UTC 2014 to Fri Jun  6 01:54:39 UTC 2014.
Fetching 4 metadata patches... done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 4 metadata files... done.
Fetching 6198 patches. 
(6198/6198) 100.00%  done. .                                     
done.
Applying patches... 



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