portaudit and portsnap acting silly.

[Guido Falsi]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:22:18AM -0800, Dave Overton wrote:
> Portaudit does this:  
> # portaudit -Fa 
> auditfile.tbz                                 100% of   46 kB 6001 kBps
> portaudit: Database too old.
> Old database restored.
> portaudit: Download failed.
>  
>  
> Portsnap does this:
> # portsnap fetch
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have!
> Cowardly refusing to downgrade from Thu Dec 27 08:10:58 PST 2007
> to Mon Dec  3 17:04:28 PST 2007.
>  
> 
> In case anyone knows anyone who can beat them back into submission.

Are you using a proxy server. I encountered similar problems with a
proxy. In fact I usually set up squid not to cache
portsnap[0-9].freebsd.org. Never seen such a problem with portaudit
though...

Hope this helps.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>