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

[Donald J. O'Neill]

On Friday 05 May 2006 01:06, Peggy Wilkins wrote:
> On 5/4/06, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Peggy Wilkins wrote:
> > > On 5/4/06, Jason Morgan 
<jwm-freebsd-questions at sentinelchicken.net> wrote:
> > >> Did you run `extract' after your original `fetch'?
> > >
> > > Yes, I did; I followed the instructions exactly.  I ran portsnap
> > > for the first time a couple weeks ago after which I successfully
> > > did a bunch of portupgrades.  Then the ports tree sat there on my
> > > disk untouched for a couple of weeks until I ran "portsnap fetch
> > > update" today.  For some reason it insisted that I needed to run
> > > "extract" when as far as I can tell that shouldn't have been
> > > necessary.
> >
> > 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
>
> plw
> _______________________________________________

Have you stopped using cvsup for updating your ports? If you do, you're 
going to have to use extract the next time you use portsnap.

Don