Re: portsnap and updates using cron

From: Will Maier (willmaier_at_ml1.net)
Date: 08/31/05

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    Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:46:54 -0500
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    On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:32:17PM +0200, martin hudec wrote:
    > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:28:03AM -0500 or thereabouts, Will Maier wrote:
    > > So what happens when you run:

    > > # /usr/local/sbin/portsnap fetch
    > > # /usr/local/sbin/portsnap update

    > They are both running pretty well from command line.

    No errors? They update your ports tree as expected?

    > Here is full content of portsnap.conf located in /usr/local/etc/:

    > # Defaults:
    > WORKDIR=/usr/local/portsnap
    > PORTSDIR=/usr/ports

    > KEYPRINT=9b5feee6d69f170e3dd0a2c8e469ddbd64f13f978f2f3aede40c98633216c330
    > URL=http://portsnap.daemonology.net

    This is fine.

    Looking back over the thread, you mention that, in cron, you're
    running the following:

        portsnap cron
        portsnap -I update
                 ^^

    You also say that you think your process isn't functioning because
    the ctimes in /usr/ports are too old. You do realize that '-I'
    causes portsnap to "update INDEX files, but not the rest of the
    ports tree" (man 8 portsnap). 

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