problems w/ touching all files?

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Sun Mar 14 04:07:39 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Richard DeLaurell <
richard.delaurell at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>wrote:
>
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>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Richard DeLaurell <
>> richard.delaurell at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I made a big mistake the upshot of which is that many of my files
>>> (including
>>> many port/makefiles) have the wrong date.
>>>
>>
>> maybe try a portnsnap fetch extract, touch -m should help on
>> /usr/ports/distfiles/
>>
>>
> Wouldn't the portsnap fetch extract reset the modified dates without a
> touch?
>

No, not for the files in /usr/ports/distfiles/  Those timestamps would be
set when the tarball for the port is fetched.  It is not modified other than
that I believe except for perhaps access times.

-- 
Adam Vande More


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