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From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] file dates on system totally bodged
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:19:56
Message-Id: 7bef1f890601020414r7a767880nc4eeb0de902d8834@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] file dates on system totally bodged by Neil Bothwick
1 On 1/2/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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3 > Changing dates manually will confuse portage, which keeps track of the
4 > datestamps of all files it installs. The upshot is that it will no
5 > remove files where the dates have changed. The safest method of correcting
6 > the dates would be to re-emerge the affected packages. Use genlop --list
7 > --date XXX to see which you installed during the problem period, then
8 > emerge them all with the --oneshot option.
9 >
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11 Thank you for the uesful inshght.
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13 genlop just says:
14 #genlop --list --date 01/01/2020 01/01/2021
15 Date 2020010100:00:00 is in the future, not good
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17 I got a list of packages with this:
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19 #genlop --list | grep 2020 |cut -b 38- | emerge >2020list
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21 Is it possible to run emerge using a list of files as input? Or stdin?
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23 Alan
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