8/25/06 I have tried to use portsnap; it seems like a good way to get my feet wet into the world of incremental updates.
Environment: Home LAN fed by DSL service; ISP's dhcp to a Netopia router; fixed 192.168.1/28 on LAN. DAISY is made of the following: EVGA 133-K8-NF41 Socket 939 MoBo with AMD Athlon 64 3000+ /var is 1GB 7%full uname -a: FreeBSD daisy.local 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Aug 14 21:46:21 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/DAISY amd64 PROBLEM: portsnap fetch fails in the following manner reliably (well, 2 tries): DAISY:/var/db Aug24 19:19:44> sudo portsnap fetch Password: Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... using portsnap2.FreeBSD.org Fetching public key... done. Fetching snapshot tag... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Fetching snapshot generated at Wed Aug 23 20:31:33 EDT 2006: a6a4a76827c593099eadbff71a3788f9cd9eaf0264c343100% of 43 MB 89 kBps 00m00s Extracting snapshot... done. Verifying snapshot integrity... done. Fetching snapshot tag... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Wed Aug 23 20:31:33 EDT 2006 to Thu Aug 24 17:20:00 EDT 2006. Fetching 4 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 4 metadata files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open a4ec457a31b3ec590ff47e11d7bf481f4ff4e0aa0564879639a2ef3196d91811.gz: No such file or directory metadata is corrupt. DAISY:/var/db Aug24 19:29:22> ll /var/db/portsnap reveals: total 2660 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Aug 25 17:29 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 512 Aug 25 18:12 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1323343 Aug 25 17:28 INDEX -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 260 Aug 25 17:29 filelist drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1341440 Aug 24 21:54 files -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 520 Aug 25 17:29 patchlist -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 451 Aug 25 16:54 pub.ssl -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 54 Aug 25 17:19 serverlist -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 299 Aug 24 21:58 tINDEX -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 299 Aug 25 16:54 tINDEX.new -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 85 Aug 25 17:19 tag -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 85 Aug 25 17:29 tag.new Monstrous directory size is result of 15719 files present, each with hideously long filenames. I have done rm -r /var/db/portsnap and repeated the above; same result. I believe there were no errors in both downloads. Possible cause ??: Bad "KEYPRINT" in /etc/portsnap.conf (unchanged except for uncommenting the two REFUSE statements). In any case, here's portsnap.conf (except for stripped comments): SERVERNAME=portsnap.FreeBSD.org KEYPRINT=9b5feee6d69f170e3dd0a2c8e469ddbd64f13f978f2f3aede40c98633216c330 REFUSE arabic chinese hebrew hungarian japanese REFUSE korean polish russian ukrainian vietnamese _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"