On Tue Jan 15, 2008 03:39PM, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks, using "portsnap extract" did it.

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Trey
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