what's up with portsnap?

r17fbsd at xxiii.com r17fbsd at xxiii.com
Wed May 23 11:18:03 UTC 2007


At 11:52 PM 5/22/2007, you wrote:
>r17fbsd at xxiii.com wrote:
> > # portsnap fetch
> > Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have!
>
>That's really strange.  And it doesn't happen for me.
>Is it possible that you have a misbehaving proxy which is caching
>a month-old snapshot?  Colin Percival

Oh, crap.  The god of portsnap and things FBSD has spoken and said 
I'm a dipshit.  And of course he's right  ;)

Yeah, it goes through squid.... cause IIRC you suggested it.  It 
speeds up multi-machine updates a bunch.  But when they all started 
doing the same thing, I figured it was something on the 
servers.  I've been snapping for over a year, and it's always worked 
great through squid.  Don't know what changed, but I gave squid a 
re-init, and portsnap is fetching 6200 patches.  I should probably 
just blow out ports and start from scratch at this point.

Thanks, Colin!

    -RW



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