Re: Downloading ports tree again

Trey Sizemore wrote:
I have used portsnap to download the ports tree. Recently, I've removed
/usr/ports/* and now need to download the ports tree again.

However, running portnap fetch results in:
"Ports tree hasn't changed since last snapshot
No updates needed"

How can I 'reset' portsnap and get the ports tree again?

Thanks!
I would first try a "portsnap extract" and see if this extracts the whole ports tree again (from what I understand from the man page, it will)

Otherwise, portsnap saves its state in /var/db/portsnap. You could try deleting the files in there.

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