Portsnap - Metadata is Corrupt

[Pete Long]

On 14 Apr 2021, at 16:18, Pete Long wrote:

> On 14 Apr 2021, at 16:10, Oleg Cherkasov wrote:
>
>> On 14.04.2021 16:53, Pete Long wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> The last time I had a similar issue the fix was to remove the content of
>> /var/db/portsnap/. In case you do not have any custom ports it is easy to
>> fix the problem. Make a copy of your customized ports and then merge it
>> after a successful update.
>>
> I'll give that another go and see what happens.

Another go was given and unfortunately this was the result:

# rm -Rf /var/db/portsnap/*
# date
Wed Apr 14 16:25:01 BST 2021
# portsnap auto
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from ipv4.aws.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
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   44 kBps 34m18s
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 16:04:04 BST 2021.
Fetching 5 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 5 metadata files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
metadata is corrupt.
# date
Wed Apr 14 17:05:09 BST 2021

(I do solemly swear I issued the date command right after the last line of
output)

Pete.
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