portsnap DOESN'T WORK

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 4/12/06, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > root at 3miasto# portsnap fetch
> > [...]
> > Fetching 4 metadata files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open
> > 4ad98b45a8fb7f262971491949ddd63be3fa066a31d5d09d53a9eddff3276698.gz: No
> > such file or directory
> > metadata is corrupt.
> >
> > tried cleaning /var/db/portsnap completely too. it fetched all data
> > first and then got the same exactly
> >
> > what's wrong?
>
> What does "portsnap --debug fetch" report?
>
> Colin Percival
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BTW, I didn't want to bother you, but I've had a similar problem
on a very slow link. Portsnap tends to time out (in spite of the
download is in progress, bytes are coming - just very slowly)
and says that <something> is  corrupt. I think time outs should
be tuned.