Re: [gentoo-user] file dates on system totally bodged

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:57:00 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:

> Over a period of a week or so, while I was celebrating the holidays,
> my system experienced a hardware hiccough, causing system
> clock/hardware clock time to change to 2020.  The upshot is that a
> bunch of merges, a kernel compile, and various other system components
> have files that are way out of date.
> 
> I have experimentally touched some files with the current date and
> time.

Changing dates manually will confuse portage, which keeps track of the
datestamps of all files it installs. The upshot is that it will no
remove files where the dates have changed. The safest method of correcting
the dates would be to re-emerge the affected packages. Use genlop --list
--date XXX to see which you installed during the problem period, then
emerge them all with the --oneshot option.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If at first you don't succeed, call it Windows NT.

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