portsnap question

[Novembre]

On Nov 7, 2007 7:36 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Novembre wrote:
> > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> > Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done.
> > Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
> > Updating from Fri Oct  5 16:39:29 CDT 2007 to Wed Nov  7 17:22:07 CST 2007.
> > Fetching 4 metadata patches... done.
> > Applying metadata patches... done.
> > Fetching 4 metadata files... done.
> > Fetching 2125 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100....110....120....130....140....150....160....170....180....190....200....210....220....230....240....250....260....270....280....290....300....310....320....330....340....350....360....370....380....390...
> > done.
> > Applying patches... done.
> > Fetching 1882 new ports or files... done.
> >
> > I'm wondering why it says 'fetching 2125 patches...' and then
> > downloading only 396 of them.
>
> Probably there was either a glitch on the mirror or you're behind a
> "transparent" HTTP proxy which misbehaved.  Portsnap falls back to
> downloading complete files if it can't fetch or apply patches (which
> is why the 1882 new ports or files is such a large number), so all
> this means is that a bit more bandwidth was used than necessary.
>
> > I have not run 'portsnap update' yet since I was afraid it might ruin
> > my ports tree. Is there anyway to force portsnap fetch a new snapshot
> > without telling me 'no updates needed'?
>
> Don't worry, you can run `portsnap update` safely.
>
> Not relevant in this case, but for the benefit of the archives: In the
> rare case where portsnap's locally stored snapshot becomes corrupt (most
> often as a result of filesystem not being unmounted cleanly), deleting
> everything inside /var/db/portsnap will result in portsnap downloading a
> complete new snapshot the next time `portsnap fetch` is run.
>
> Colin Percival
>
>


Thanks for the reply. I read the man page for portsnap and realized
that it stores the snapshots in /var/db/portsnap and wanted to delete
everything there and run 'portsnap fetch' again, but decided to post a
question and ask first (hoping that there's a shortcut). It's good to
hear that nothing went wrong...I'll run 'portsnap update' then.