Portsnap - Metadata is Corrupt

[Pete Long]

Hi all,

Sorry if this is something you've recently discussed but I was wondering if
anyone else is seeing an issue with updating the ports tree using portsnap.

I'm on 12.2-RELEASE-p6 and would ideally like to update the ports so I can
install the latest SpamAssassin program. Apparently the one I have in my
ports now won't build due to a serious vulnerability.

Here's the command and output I use and see:

# portsnap auto
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from ipv4.aws.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Fetching snapshot generated at Wed Apr 14 01:09:41 BST 2021:
0b344cd7869783c8d72504314f54f27b9ac6225ce21fae          88 MB   26 kBps 49m08s
Extracting snapshot... done.
Verifying snapshot integrity... done.
Fetching snapshot tag from ipv4.aws.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Updating from Wed Apr 14 01:09:41 BST 2021 to Wed Apr 14 14:28:53 BST 2021.
Fetching 5 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 5 metadata files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open b1b1cb6ba5967e44b1ece8d63f7cb3d01b2c03fcf6691129dcb1cd5b8fe6024f.gz: No such file or directory
metadata is corrupt.


I should add that my connection to the FreeBSD servers is incredibly and
uncharacteristically slow at the moment. It could be at my end but generally
I'm getting almost the bandwidth for which I've subscribed.

Thanks.

Pete.

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