portsnap update

[nedry]

Hi just doing a portsnap update, and i got an error:

sort: Broken Pipe

it seems to continue as it says its

Removing old files and directories....

i do hope it wont brake my ports tree.
nedry

 

[SirDice]

Nothing major if your ports tree does break. Just remove the whole lot ( rm -rf /usr/ports) and refetch; portsnap fetch extract.

If there's one directory you can nuke without thinking about it it's /usr/ports

 

[Sevendogs]

Just did that this weekend and I can a test that it indeed does work as SirDice advertised

 

[teo]

And because it does not update with the method SVN? I remember the methods of updating portsnap update and freebsd-update was vulnerabilities to attacks on automatic.