From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 19:46:16 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 159DB106564A for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:46:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DED7C8FC0C for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:46:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj4 with SMTP id 4so225829pwj.13 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:46:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=S+eL+uGTh3Ou6SMQjuT1FddX/H9MP3skJkVOI6on3lc=; b=wEpWomurk3Jrhui5TvxiZoZUMnzvE8gT5mO88k6VtH3/okYGo2TikVVSfupyaYmdJD FjGqPVU5anRt9Nd1iKAPNpK/TRBPASQcvzMaxtTwAH2hrLS81ZngvQ4p4hPJoEdfsbx6 uV38ASvVZCJhR4WX9H3fDFmaw14RmhY6Cf9c0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=cTftmSI+KvivWDpcGwdojHfirCgXiwuEVi201uP6ACrPq/wRv7A+vd9zq/v+spe6ss ysM6Afv7PdAkZmieByZnmZTD1h3Hiz9XyvjaYTRMnKw/Lhqw3udWuMY0z1WVH7Cp53fG uMF5FMU335xn0WMMrIcE1avvdm9pjgrnPdu/s= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.143.24.41 with SMTP id b41mr1584536wfj.98.1268336775196; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:46:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4324dbec1003110905i3267df08hfc2d8a790c797a45@mail.gmail.com> References: <4324dbec1003110905i3267df08hfc2d8a790c797a45@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:46:15 -0600 Message-ID: <6201873e1003111146u488a1353r92342e9fd870fb87@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Richard DeLaurell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: 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 19:46:16 -0000 On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Richard DeLaurell < richard.delaurell@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > maybe try a portnsnap fetch extract, touch -m should help on /usr/ports/distfiles/ -- Adam Vande More