On 02/11/2010 11:34, Jerry wrote: > Since "portsnap' has been failing on my system, I tried a different > approach and decided to rebuild the port entirely rather than just > download an updated snapshot. This is the result of just such a > venture: > > portsnap fetch extract > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. > Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... failed. > Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... failed. > Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... failed. > Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap6.FreeBSD.org... failed. > Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap4.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > You will notice that all the mirrors appear broken. Now, I can reach the > FreeBSD web site, and every other site I commonly visit without a > problem; therefore, I believe the problem resides somewhere with the > portsnap mirrors. > > Can anyone confirm or further thesis this thesis? > Working from the UK
[r...@seaurchin ~]# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Tue Nov 2 02:25:26 GMT 2010 to Tue Nov 2 11:26:20 GMT 2010. Fetching 4 metadata patches... done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 0 metadata files... done. Fetching 9 patches..... done. Applying patches... done. Fetching 3 new ports or files... done. Vince _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"