From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 17:28:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA7B106566C for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:28:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richard.delaurell@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f54.google.com (mail-ww0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F648FC1D for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb28 with SMTP id 28so213828wwb.13 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:28:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=i+EeQ57588xqIR/on/1f5/shCtCyhqtEWuKAl7bZGEI=; b=VlvlbCTF+3R9Hm97UdLGN3E7ra0MhDbsiP3I0GXX9+jwAiehTczyD94ciwBENCyYwB KaFWD3BYHM/40ZT935lM1z/7ADsujfSfg534pxmVTGRixFvmHVpmmvgEZZDU7gGC7OIT sHxmOvYt0CaywfsDuzMDMnRWTxvN0xT4RX180= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=B3LgzjkrH1pj296EKxGzLaJqLPnqxnkiNm1k5FF0UjP2znRKGPWC0NWPDwV8P1qIuW DmcPDORq5lP060Zw4oBzDo8TbyMZcm8rPPQYCb+7EUPJQICcEAZWwPDp3onWix3zor7H oi2hSoJPjDz/mKUXrvnytvVMQxRJNfmZ6mUfg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.166.84 with SMTP id f62mr709671wel.80.1268327104818; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:05:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:05:04 -0600 Message-ID: <4324dbec1003110905i3267df08hfc2d8a790c797a45@mail.gmail.com> From: Richard DeLaurell To: "mail.list freebsd-questions" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: problems w/ touching all files? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:28:55 -0000 I made a big mistake the upshot of which is that many of my files (including many port/makefiles) have the wrong date. As a result, I get a lot of failures when trying to install from ports. I can get around it by temporarily setting the date, building the port, then resetting the date, but it is still inconvenient. I would rather not do a clean install at this point, but am wondering if "touching" all of the files on my system would solve this problem WITHOUT creating any new ones? If it would, what might those new complications be? As I say, it is not mission-critical at this point, but it would be helpful to fix this. Thanks for any help. Richard DeLaurell