Ports transitioned to git.

[pantos]

I've run into that every now and then. Just delete the portsnap cache and try again.
Something like

mv /var/db/portsnap /var/db/portsnap.broken
portsnap fetch extract

I tried this, but the error persists.

EDIT: After numerous attempts, it workes now...

 

[SirDice]

portsnap fetch error

Hi I tried doing a portsnap fetch and I get the following error: root@bsdcompile:~ # portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from ipv4.aws.portsnap.freebsd.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Wed Mar 31 14:10:16...

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[Deleted member 30996]

I have the same metadata problem using portsnap:
Any ideas how to solve this?

I nagged it to death and kept running portsnap fetch update and and portsnap fetch extract till that command downloaded a snapshot update of close to 30,000 patches. Then it was back to normal operation.

I updated this one last night with all the port breakage in the process detailed now fixed.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Re: <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2021-April/293732.html>

portsnap update does not yet provide the most recent updates …

Two days ago, that was still true (with a test machine):

This evening, things seem to be better.