At 23:14 Uhr -0500 30.01.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >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. > >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. > >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.
In addition, you shoul also run: fink check foo.deb to let the validator check you are not using evil directories like /sw/man or are even going outside of /sw. Cheers, Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
