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> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:18 PM
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge time problem
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> finding where the script uses ls to check against the system time and see if
> your system is "sane".  After closer inspection, I see when the "tar -xvf"
> step is run that every file is from the future.  A long ways in the future.
> I didn't do the math, but I would bet the executing process is believing it
> is time 0 when it is running.
> 
> What I have already tried--
> If I go into the build directory and touch the configure script, then run it
> again, I can manually run the install process, e.g. "configure;gmake;gmake
> install"  When I type "date", it looks right to me.  When I create files
> they have the current time on them.  I don't know what the problem is, but I
> am guessing it is related to installing the desktop since that is all I have
> done to change anything since the last time I saw emerge work.  I have tried
> "emerge rsync" which did not help.  I have tried emerging other things, all
> builds fail for the same reason.  The build stops and tells me to check to
> make sure my clock works.

What happens when you create a tar archive (tar) from a local directory and
then unpack it?  What happens when you create an compressed archive (tgz)
locally and uncompress it?  What happens when you create a bzip2 compressed
archive?
Do these give the correct times for the files? 


--DB




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