cannot portsnap now

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sw2wolf

Code: 
>sudo portsnap fetch update
Password:
Looking up portsnap.hshh.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.hshh.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Updating from Tue Dec 27 15:35:40 CST 2011 to Tue Feb 21 09:34:34 CST 2012.
Fetching 4 metadata patches... done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 4 metadata files... done.
Fetching 67 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60... done.
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 45 new ports or files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
snapshot is corrupt.

How can I fix such a problem?
 
Code: 
Updating from Tue [B]Dec 27[/B] 15:35:40 CST 2011 to Tue [B]Feb 21[/B] 09:34:34 CST 2012.
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This will often go wrong. If you don't run portsnap at least once a week or a couple of times a month, catching up and integrating thousands of patches will become error-prone. The best thing to do is the following:

[cmd=]rm /var/db/portsnap/tag && portsnap fetch extract[/cmd]

This will get you a clean and new ports tree at the expense of a download of ~70 MB. At least you'll be done faster than downloading, unzipping, and integrating thousands of patches into an existing ports tree.
 
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