Problem with portsnap fetch

[Efraín Déctor]

El 05/04/2013 12:50 p.m., Efraín Déctor escribió:
> Hello. Today I ran into a problem when trying to update the ports tree.
>
> I executed the following command:
>
> # portsnap fetch
>
> However I got this message:
>
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
> Fetching public key from your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
> Fetching snapshot tag from your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
> Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
> Fetching snapshot generated at Fri Apr  5 00:09:09 UTC 2013:
> 2c954aa9458bb07dbefad840b7a06e3b9a5f5f90e10963100% of 1045  B 5101 kBps
> Extracting snapshot... tar: Unrecognized archive format
> tar: snap: Not found in archive
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>
> Looking in the Internet I found that deleting the directory 
> /var/db/portsnap/files should help, however it didn't work, also found 
> that deleting the portsnap directory should do the trick, but this 
> didn't work either I keep getting the same error message. The tar 
> command is functioning correctly (I tested it).
>
> uname -a:
> FreeBSD motum.test.com 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue 
> Sep 27 18:45:57 UTC 2011 
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>
> Can you guys please point me in the right direction?.
>
> Thanks in advance.

Sorry. It was a problem with the proxy. It was blocking the download of 
larger files.

Thanks.