Why do I have to keep doing "portsnap extract"?

[Peggy Wilkins]

On 5/4/06, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Peggy Wilkins wrote:
> > On 5/4/06, Jason Morgan <jwm-freebsd-questions at sentinelchicken.net> wrote:
> >> Did you run `extract' after your original `fetch'?
> >
> > Yes, I did; I followed the instructions exactly.  I ran portsnap for
> > the first time a couple weeks ago after which I successfully did a
> > bunch of portupgrades.  Then the ports tree sat there on my disk
> > untouched for a couple of weeks until I ran "portsnap fetch update"
> > today.  For some reason it insisted that I needed to run "extract"
> > when as far as I can tell that shouldn't have been necessary.
>
> Do you have a ".portsnap.INDEX" file in your ports tree?

Yes; I don't know if it was there before I ran portsnap today, though.

-rw-r--r--     1 root  wheel   1230186 May  4 16:39 .portsnap.INDEX

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