On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Richard DeLaurell < richard.delaur...@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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
