Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:46:15 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Richard DeLaurell <richard.delaurell@gmail.com> Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: problems w/ touching all files? Message-ID: <6201873e1003111146u488a1353r92342e9fd870fb87@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4324dbec1003110905i3267df08hfc2d8a790c797a45@mail.gmail.com> References: <4324dbec1003110905i3267df08hfc2d8a790c797a45@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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