Portsnap: Cowardly Gives Up After Failure

[Rene Ladan]

2008/3/9, Simon L. Nielsen <simon at freebsd.org>:
> On 2008.03.09 15:38:53 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
>  > On 2008.03.09 14:36:49 +0100, Rene Ladan wrote:
>  > > Gerard schreef:
>  > > > I just saw this 'portsnap' error message for the first time.
>  > > >
>  > > >
>  > > > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
>  > > > Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... done.
>  > > > Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have!
>  > > > Cowardly refusing to downgrade from Fri Mar  7 15:23:43 EST 2008
>  > > > to Fri Mar  7 10:15:54 EST 2008.
>  > > >
>  > > I see this happening about half the times I run portsnap.  The
>  > > erroneous image is always from March 7.
>  >
>  > The most likely cause of the problem is that the data portsnap is
>  > trying to fetch is out of date either bacause of the mirror being
>  > (partially?) broken or e.g. a broken proxy in between.
>  >
>  > Is the working or non-working related to a particular portsnap server?
>
>
> OK, I just reproduced it - it seems portsnap2.FreeBSD.org is out of
>  date.  I have poked the admin of the particular mirror (quite easy as
>  it's Colin ;-) ).
>
portsnap3 also has issues (20080310 1008 UTC), while portsnap2 is ok
at this time :

Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done.
Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have!
Cowardly refusing to downgrade from Mon Mar 10 06:30:19 CET 2008
to Sat Mar  8 23:51:56 CET 2008.

Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Updating from Mon Mar 10 06:30:19 CET 2008 to Mon Mar 10 09:23:20 CET 2008.

Rene
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