portsnap

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On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:10:48 +0000 (UTC)
jb wrote:


> > You gave portsnap two commands - one succeeded and the other failed.
> > 
> > "fetch" downloads and applies patches to the compressed 
> > snapshot. "update" uses the compressed snapshot to update a
> > pre-existing ports tree created by an "extract" 
> > ...
> 
> OK.
> But this looks like a flaky entry validation - it should be rejected
> up front as invalid entry, even if it applied to the second part -
> "update". Because the effect of processing the entire entry "fetch"
> plus "update" is lost anyway.

Not isn't, you've brought the snapshot up to date.