freebsd stable - Dec 2007 - portaudit and portsnap acting silly.

Portaudit does this:  
# portaudit -Fa 
auditfile.tbz                                 100% of   46 kB 6001 kBps
portaudit: Database too old.
Old database restored.
portaudit: Download failed.
 
 
Portsnap does this:
# portsnap fetch
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done.
Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have!
Cowardly refusing to downgrade from Thu Dec 27 08:10:58 PST 2007
to Mon Dec  3 17:04:28 PST 2007.
 

In case anyone knows anyone who can beat them back into submission.

Dave Overton, Owner
SYIX.COM

dave@syix.com
(530) 755-1751 x101
Fax (530) 751-8871
800-988-SYIX

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:22:18AM -0800, Dave Overton
wrote:
> Portaudit does this:  
> # portaudit -Fa 
> auditfile.tbz                                 100% of   46 kB 6001 kBps
> portaudit: Database too old.
> Old database restored.
> portaudit: Download failed.
>  
>  
> Portsnap does this:
> # portsnap fetch
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have!
> Cowardly refusing to downgrade from Thu Dec 27 08:10:58 PST 2007
> to Mon Dec  3 17:04:28 PST 2007.
>  
> 
> In case anyone knows anyone who can beat them back into submission.
Are you using a proxy server. I encountered similar problems with a
proxy. In fact I usually set up squid not to cache
portsnap[0-9].freebsd.org. Never seen such a problem with portaudit
though...

Hope this helps.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>

Fixed.

For reference, it was squid, happily caching the data for me.

Makes one wonder why the portsnap and portaudit servers or clients aren't
http compliant if they use http protocols... Especially since the author of
portsnap suggests a cache server for speed....

Oh well...

Dave Overton, Owner
SYIX.COM

dave@syix.com
(530) 755-1751 x101
Fax (530) 751-8871
800-988-SYIX 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dave Overton
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:22 AM
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: portaudit and portsnap acting silly.
> 
> Portaudit does this:  
> # portaudit -Fa 
> auditfile.tbz                                 100% of   46 kB 
> 6001 kBps
> portaudit: Database too old.
> Old database restored.
> portaudit: Download failed.
>  
>  
> Portsnap does this:
> # portsnap fetch
> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have!
> Cowardly refusing to downgrade from Thu Dec 27 08:10:58 PST 
> 2007 to Mon Dec  3 17:04:28 PST 2007.
>  
> 
> In case anyone knows anyone who can beat them back into submission.
> 
> Dave Overton, Owner
> SYIX.COM
> 
> dave@syix.com
> (530) 755-1751 x101
> Fax (530) 751-8871
> 800-988-SYIX 
> 
>  
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