> Kyle, your /etc directory is not actually gone.
>
> On darwin/Mac OS X, /etc is actually a symbolic link to /private/etc.
> So if you do:
>   cd /; sudo ln -s private/etc .
> everything will be back to normal.

DAMMIT!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

(This was sent just after I did a complete reformat of my HD and 
reinstall)

Oh, well, yet another practice at redoing the server.

>
> The reason this happened is that your dhcp package had the directory 
> "/etc"
> in the .deb file (as I warned you on the package submission tracker).
> When you removed it, dpkg removed /etc...since this was a symlink, only
> the symlink was removed.  No warning needed, because the thing being
> removed WAS empty.

Yea, I still think it ought to be smart enough not to do some things 
like that, though.

> Anyway, this should be a warning to all of us to be careful about what
> goes in the .deb file.  When I am testing a new package, I always
> build it before installing, and then run "dpkg --contents foo.deb" to
> see what is there before I install.

I am never going to break that advice ever again!

>
>   -- Dave
>

Kyle Moffett


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