> 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 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
