On 9/20/07, Marcus Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've tried this on a couple of different machines a few times over
> the last couple of days, and keep getting the same results.  Starting
> with an empty /var/db/portsnap :
>
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/db]# portsnap fetch
>   Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
>   Fetching public key from portsnap3.freebsd.org... done.
>   Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.freebsd.org... done.
>   Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
>   Fetching snapshot generated at Tue Sep 18 17:22:37 PDT 2007:
>   1d76db54d472a78981f30c134f34eea49141d183d48127100% of   49 MB   90 kBps 
> 00m00s
>   Extracting snapshot... done.
>   Verifying snapshot integrity... gunzip: 
> snap/2bafbd0d8edc7a7cfa7e19833986ae4032f82006fd0d65cba9c4a75b432b5c8e.gz: 
> unexpected end of file
[...]
> Some files in the archive are valid, but many seem to be
> truncated.  Is there a big problem with portsnap right now?
[...]

If your internet connection if flaky, or if you get in data through a
proxy - this problem pops up. I used to have this problem when my
internet connection was slow and flaky - once we added more bandwidth,
it has gone away completely.

-Amarendra
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