snapshot is corrupt

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

On Sep 8, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Pollywog wrote:

>
> This is what I would do...
>
> as root,
>
> cd /usr/ports/
>
> rm -rf *  (make sure you are in /usr/ports/ when you do this)

Safer would probably be

  rm -rf /usr/ports/
  mkdir /usr/ports

> portsnap fetch  (this will take a while)
>
> portsnap extract
>
> After that, you only need to do 'portsnap update' when you want to  
> update the
> ports and it should not take too long if you have updated them  
> recently.

Ah.  I somehow over looked the "update" portsnap command.  Thank you.

-j


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