Hello all,
I am having trouble with portsnap. I have a fresh install of FreeBSD 9.0 without the port tree installed from disk - because I intended to download a fresh copy using portsnap. However, when I use portsnap I keep getting this mysterious error:
The closest result that has a solution is this thread:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17673
However, even after following the directions posted, by removing the following:
I still get the same issue.
Can anyone confirm this, please? And, if not - am I doing something wrong?
I would appreciate any insight anyone can offer regarding into this. Thank you.
UPDATE:
I decided to try the same thing on a fresh install of FreeBSD 9.1, and I got the same kind of error - which is highly unusual. Is this an issue related to the mirrors?
I am having trouble with portsnap. I have a fresh install of FreeBSD 9.0 without the port tree installed from disk - because I intended to download a fresh copy using portsnap. However, when I use portsnap I keep getting this mysterious error:
Code:
portsnap fetch
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Fetching snapshot generated at Sun May 26 20:02:39 EDT 2013:
fetch: [url]http://your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org/s/ecc705a413e04a7c6eafdc110161ed9e1d6efd52224e7a9c93775bcc62c29ebb.tgz:[/url] Requested Range Not Satisfiable
The closest result that has a solution is this thread:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17673
However, even after following the directions posted, by removing the following:
Code:
/var/db/portsnap/tag
/var/db/portsnap/files/*
I still get the same issue.
Can anyone confirm this, please? And, if not - am I doing something wrong?
I would appreciate any insight anyone can offer regarding into this. Thank you.
UPDATE:
I decided to try the same thing on a fresh install of FreeBSD 9.1, and I got the same kind of error - which is highly unusual. Is this an issue related to the mirrors?