Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

On 11/4/13 7:28 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 06:53:55 -0800, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > On 11/4/13 6:29 AM, TheSin wrote: >>> great thanks for testing I'll be sure to add this patch to my >> dpkg/tar maybe someone could get the current versions? >>> --- >>> TS >>> http://www.sout

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 06:53:55 -0800, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 11/4/13 6:29 AM, TheSin wrote: > > great thanks for testing I'll be sure to add this patch to my > dpkg/tar maybe someone could get the current versions? > > --- > > TS > > http://www.southofheaven.org/ > > Life begins and ends with

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

I completely agree with tar maybe I'll give it a shot today, just got to work so I'll see how busy things are. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2013-11-04, at 7:53 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 11/4/13 6:29 AM, TheSin wrote: >>

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

On 11/4/13 6:29 AM, TheSin wrote: > great thanks for testing I'll be sure to add this patch to my dpkg/tar maybe > someone could get the current versions? > --- > TS > http://www.southofheaven.org/ > Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! > > On 2013-11-04, at 2:59 AM, Martin Cos

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

great thanks for testing I'll be sure to add this patch to my dpkg/tar maybe someone could get the current versions? --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2013-11-04, at 2:59 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 4/11/13 05:03, TheSin wrote:

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

On 4/11/13 05:03, TheSin wrote: > Thought I'd post this here, this is the reply from the dpkg author that I > have been trying to fix the u-a tests with. I haven't had a chance to apply > and test the patch or even look at it, but I hope to do so this week. > diff --git a/dpkg-deb/main.c b/dpkg

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

Thought I'd post this here, this is the reply from the dpkg author that I have been trying to fix the u-a tests with. I haven't had a chance to apply and test the patch or even look at it, but I hope to do so this week. Martin and thoughts or insights on this? --- TS http://www.southofheaven.or

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

thanks for the really good explanation of this Martin I'm going to open a report with debian and talk to the author about this. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2013-11-01, at 5:15 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 1/11/13 02:10, The

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

On 1/11/13 02:10, TheSin wrote: > shouldn't get text have a fallback or maybe we should create one, this type > of thing is going to cause issue all over, and setting it to N or not > translate isn't really a good solution. Maybe get text needs to have a > fallback added to it instead? I don't

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

shouldn't get text have a fallback or maybe we should create one, this type of thing is going to cause issue all over, and setting it to N or not translate isn't really a good solution. Maybe get text needs to have a fallback added to it instead? --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

On 31/10/13 20:25, TheSin wrote: > ChangeLog:dpkg-deb: Use fd_fd_copy instead of stream_fd_copy > > dpkg-deb/extract.c:if (fd_fd_copy(arfd, p1[1], memberlen, &err) < 0) > > need to check &err I think. Yes, I see now that this line has been fixed in new dpkg

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

ChangeLog:dpkg-deb: Use fd_fd_copy instead of stream_fd_copy dpkg-deb/extract.c:if (fd_fd_copy(arfd, p1[1], memberlen, &err) < 0) need to check &err I think. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2013-10-31, at 12:03 PM, Martin C

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

On 10/31/13 11:03 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 29/10/13 16:31, TheSin wrote: >> I honestly believe we need to patch tar to have a fallback when they >> aren't set. All this patching everywhere could easily be fixed if we >> fix tar instead. Sadly I'm not well enough versed in C to do so but >>

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

On 29/10/13 16:31, TheSin wrote: > I honestly believe we need to patch tar to have a fallback when they aren't > set. All this patching everywhere could easily be fixed if we fix tar > instead. Sadly I'm not well enough versed in C to do so but if someone could > that would be super. I think

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

I honestly believe we need to patch tar to have a fallback when they aren't set. All this patching everywhere could easily be fixed if we fix tar instead. Sadly I'm not well enough versed in C to do so but if someone could that would be super. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins a

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

On 28/10/13 23:17, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 10/28/13 2:58 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: >> I remember a discussion 2 months ago about dpkg producing en error >> >> tar: This does not look like a tar archive >> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors >> /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

On 10/28/13 2:58 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > I remember a discussion 2 months ago about dpkg producing en error > > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2 > > I thought thi

[Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

I remember a discussion 2 months ago about dpkg producing en error tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2 I thought this was fixed, but I am seeing it now, with dpkg- 1.10.21

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb: use --no-unquote as argument to tar

"Dave Vasilevsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But Fink's tar is in the dependency list of dpkg, so it should be used. > > I think this is true only when fink calls dpkg, because fink does some > path munging first. However I just tried this: > > sudo dtrace -n 'syscall::execve:entry { self->pat

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb: use --no-unquote as argument to tar

> But Fink's tar is in the dependency list of dpkg, so it should be used. I think this is true only when fink calls dpkg, because fink does some path munging first. However I just tried this: sudo dtrace -n 'syscall::execve:entry { self->path = copyinstr(arg0); } syscall::execve:return / arg0 ==

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb: use --no-unquote as argument to tar

Daniel Macks wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote: > [snip good rationale for...] >> The relevant code change is in line 450 of build.c in the >> subdirectory dpkg-deb of version 1.10.21 of dpkg: >> >> execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "--null", "-T", "-", "--no-recursi

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb: use --no-unquote as argument to tar

Jesse Alama wrote: >>> All that I can offer is that, when building my package in maintainer >>> mode, I was able to successfully build the deb. I'm not sure if >>> maintainer mode uses /usr/bin/tar, though. >> Can you not patch the package so that it does not install or need files >> with "special

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb: use --no-unquote as argument to tar

Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jesse Alama wrote: >> Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote: >>> [snip good rationale for...] The relevant code change is in line 450 of build.c in the subdirectory dpkg-de

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb: use --no-unquote as argument to tar

Jesse Alama wrote: > Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote: >> [snip good rationale for...] >>> The relevant code change is in line 450 of build.c in the >>> subdirectory dpkg-deb of version 1.10.21 of dpkg: >>> >>> execlp(TAR,"

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb: use --no-unquote as argument to tar

Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote: > [snip good rationale for...] >> The relevant code change is in line 450 of build.c in the >> subdirectory dpkg-deb of version 1.10.21 of dpkg: >> >> execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "--null", "

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb: use --no-unquote as argument to tar

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote: [snip good rationale for...] > The relevant code change is in line 450 of build.c in the > subdirectory dpkg-deb of version 1.10.21 of dpkg: > > execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "--null", "-T", "-", "--no-recursion", > "--no-unquote", (ch

[Fink-devel] dpkg-deb: use --no-unquote as argument to tar

I recently came across some software that I wanted to package that uses file names like "\vee.". (Some of the file names are names of TeX macros, followed by a period.) Unfortunately, dpkg breaks when trying to create a deb containing files like these; the error is something like "tar: unable to

[Fink-devel] dpkg "wrappers" for Apple's X11.

As everybody knows, dealing with Apple's X11 is a sticky problem. I've got a couple of packages in my experimental tree: http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/fink/experimental/alexkhansen/10.4/finkinfo/x11-system/ that extract the contents of X11User and X11SDK and make .debs out of them (the former a

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg 10.4 and Xcode2.3

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:34:21PM -0700, William Scott wrote: > > I needed to make a fresh install of fink to test a package someone > complained to me about, and (re)discovered that -force_flat_namespace > prevents it from compiling, and then noted there was some concern > about its behavi

[Fink-devel] dpkg 10.4 and Xcode2.3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks: I needed to make a fresh install of fink to test a package someone complained to me about, and (re)discovered that -force_flat_namespace prevents it from compiling, and then noted there was some concern about its behavior if that flag

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg parse error

On 4/14/06, Robert T Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since about April 3 I've had a problem that I haven't had time to look > into until now: > > dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 12823: > invalid package name (character `' not allowed - only letters, digits > and

[Fink-devel] dpkg parse error

Since about April 3 I've had a problem that I haven't had time to look into until now: dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 12823: invalid package name (character `' not allowed - only letters, digits and -+._ allowed) pico +12823 /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status: Package:

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg bug (new dpkg & apt need testing)

On Mar 14, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Daniel Johnson wrote: dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libapt-inst.1.dylib Referenced from: /sw/bin/apt-ftparchive Reason: image not found Trace/BPT trap $ otool -L /sw/lib/libapt-inst.1.dylib otool: can't open file: /sw/lib/libapt-in

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg bug (new dpkg & apt need testing)

Daniel Johnson wrote: > dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libapt-inst.1.dylib > Referenced from: /sw/bin/apt-ftparchive > Reason: image not found > Trace/BPT trap > $ otool -L /sw/lib/libapt-inst.1.dylib > otool: can't open file: /sw/lib/libapt-inst.1.dylib (No such file or > directory) > >

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg bug (new dpkg & apt need testing)

On Mar 14, 2006, at 8:13 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: On Mar 14, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: $ for GCC in gcc2 gcc3 gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3.3 gcc-3.4.1 gcc-4.0 i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 ; do echo $GCC : `$GCC - dumpmachine` ;done gcc2 : ppc-darwin gcc3 : ppc-d

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg bug (new dpkg & apt need testing)

On Mar 14, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: $ for GCC in gcc2 gcc3 gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3.3 gcc-3.4.1 gcc-4.0 i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 ; do echo $GCC : `$GCC - dumpmachine` ;done gcc2 : ppc-darwin gcc3 : ppc-darwin gcc-3.3 : ppc-darwin gcc-3.3.3 : powerpc-apple-d

[Fink-devel] dpkg bug (new dpkg & apt need testing)

Martin Costabel wrote: > $ for GCC in gcc2 gcc3 gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3.3 gcc-3.4.1 gcc-4.0 > i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 ; do echo $GCC : `$GCC -dumpmachine` ;done > > gcc2 : ppc-darwin > gcc3 : ppc-darwin > gcc-3.3 : ppc-darwin > gcc-3.3.3 : powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0 > gcc-3.4.1 : powerpc-apple-darwi

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg complains about missing gcc4.0

On 1/2/06, Bernd Kuemmerlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > > I got a report from a user that my dcmtk-ssl 3.5.4 package (which is > submitted, but not yet included) fails during installation with the > following error: > > Unpacking dcmtk-ssl (from .../dcmtk-ssl_3.5.4-2_darwin-powerpc.

[Fink-devel] dpkg complains about missing gcc4.0

Hello there, I got a report from a user that my dcmtk-ssl 3.5.4 package (which is submitted, but not yet included) fails during installation with the following error: Unpacking dcmtk-ssl (from .../dcmtk-ssl_3.5.4-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dcm

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg/status auto correction facility?

D. Höhn wrote: > Deleting the entries in question fixes things, should we maybe have an > auto check for this? Kind of difficult to have a check for filesystem corruption (this only happens if your disk is bad, or you control-C or kill off the process at a bad time). It happens extremely rarely

[Fink-devel] dpkg/status auto correction facility?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 - From time to time I get Setting build lock... /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-openssl097-0.9.7g-2_2005.06.01-10.23.39_darwin-powerpc.deb dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 794 package `foo.

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb failed, exit code 10 or 11

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 02:40, Martin Costabel wrote: > (in particular, you cannot reinstall dpkg when > dpkg is not working). You most certainly can. .deb's are "ar" files. You can use ar x to unpack: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tmp$ mkdir /tmp/foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tmp$ cd /tmp/foo

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb failed, exit code 10 or 11

D. Höhn wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: | D. Höhn wrote: | [] | |> Xould you provide a Q/A pait ? I will check it into the FAQ as soon as I |> have it and it has been verified here | | | As soon as someone has an idea what to put into the "A" part

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb failed, exit code 10 or 11

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: | D. Höhn wrote: | [] | |> Xould you provide a Q/A pait ? I will check it into the FAQ as soon as I |> have it and it has been verified here | | | As soon as someone has an idea what to put into the "A" part :-) | I haven't.

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb failed, exit code 10 or 11

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Costabel wrote: | I am forwarding a message from today's fink-users list here, in the hope | that someone with better memory or better insight knows the source of | this problem. | | This has been coming come up very regularly, I find about a doz

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb failed, exit code 10 or 11

D. Höhn wrote: [] Xould you provide a Q/A pait ? I will check it into the FAQ as soon as I have it and it has been verified here As soon as someone has an idea what to put into the "A" part :-) I haven't. -- Martin --- This SF.net email is spo

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb failed, exit code 10 or 11

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: | I am forwarding a message from today's fink-users list here, in the hope | that someone with better memory or better insight knows the source of | this problem. | | This has been coming come up very regularly, I find about

[Fink-devel] dpkg-deb failed, exit code 10 or 11

I am forwarding a message from today's fink-users list here, in the hope that someone with better memory or better insight knows the source of this problem. This has been coming come up very regularly, I find about a dozen complaints like this in the past two months, and it should certainly be

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-bootstrap cannot be built due to missing gettext-dev

Hi, So the consensus is to remove dpkg-bootstrap from the package tree? I'll do it tomorrow (PST) if nobody shouts... Cheers, Remi On Dec 16, 2003, at 4:36 PM, TheSin wrote: I didn't even know it's in the tree but I don't think it should be. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-bootstrap cannot be built due to missing gettext-dev

I didn't even know it's in the tree but I don't think it should be. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 16-Dec-03, at 5:35 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Well, it is not anticipated that anybody will build or install dpkg-bootstrap unless the

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-bootstrap cannot be built due to missing gettext-dev

Well, it is not anticipated that anybody will build or install dpkg-bootstrap unless they are actually running the fink bootstrap script. I wonder if we should remove it from the package tree, and just keep it around in the bootstrap area... -- Dave --

[Fink-devel] dpkg-bootstrap cannot be built due to missing gettext-dev

Hi, I just noticed that 'fink rebuild dpkg-bootstrap' fails when gettext-dev is not installed. I see that in the standard dpkg packages there is an explicit install for gettext-dev and other devs in the CompileScript, while this is missing in the dpkg-bootstrap package. This is true for 10.2-g

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg...

But this does not work as intended. Dpkg still tries to set group and user IDs even tho they are already correct, resulting in permission denied errors. :-( JP On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 8:22 pm, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 20:19, John Davidorff Pell wrote: Aren't th

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg...

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 20:19, John Davidorff Pell wrote: > Aren't there ways > of simply extracting the files within a deb? Then we could parse the > pre/post scripts ourselves... anyone up for a dpkg replacement? ;-) try 'man dpkg' before re-inventing the wheel: dpkg --force-not-root

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg...

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 02:04, John Davidorff Pell wrote: > But this does not work as intended. Dpkg still tries to set group and > user IDs even tho they are already correct, resulting in permission > denied errors. :-( --force-all seems to make it continue anyway. Actually, on my Debian system w

[Fink-devel] dpkg-1.10.9-14 problem (10.2-gcc3.3)

I started a fresh installation of fink for 10.2-gcc3.3 by installing the fink-5.3 installer, making the symlink dists->10.2-gcc3.3, selfupdate-cvs to the latest descriptions, installing fink-0.14.0, and fink update-all. The updating of dpkg failed, because the header file libintl.h was not fou

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg...

Ok, so I've added the non-root force option to the dpkg line, but now dpkg fails when changing the user from 'fink' to 'fink'? iThink that part of it might be the group, its trying to assign 'wheel'... Well, I'll keep y'all posted. If you wanna help, here's my patch so far: finkUser.patch De

[Fink-devel] Dpkg...

I've got fink 100% working with the 'fink' user, UID 240, created manually, except one minor part... dpkg -i /test/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc/ fink_0.14.0.cvs-20031010.2353_darwin-powerpc.deb dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege ### execution of dpkg fa

Re: [Fink-devel] DPKG and Building Darwin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ... ok so then how do i build darwin? (obviously the wrong list, but any pointers would be appreciated!) JP On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 01:37 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: On lundi, fév 10, 2003, at 08:16 Europe/Paris, John Davido

Re: [Fink-devel] DPKG and Building Darwin

On lundi, fév 10, 2003, at 08:16 Europe/Paris, John Davidorff Pell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, The (seriously dated) HOWTOs on building darwin say that its based on a dpkg-like system, but that there is no database, so you cant use dpkg to install it. I don't want

[Fink-devel] DPKG and Building Darwin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, The (seriously dated) HOWTOs on building darwin say that its based on a dpkg-like system, but that there is no database, so you cant use dpkg to install it. I don't want to make it share the database w/ fink, but can I use fink's dpkg to make a

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg 'available' file - sections?

On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 10:43 PM, Ben Hines wrote: This probably also explains why i have no sections in dselect... Does anyone? I do, for some packages (both available and installed). On the Debian system, th

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg 'available' file - sections?

On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 10:43 PM, Ben Hines wrote: This probably also explains why i have no sections in dselect... Does anyone? I do, for some packages (both available and installed). On the Debian system, the section comes from the Packages and Packages.gz files which are maintai

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg 'available' file - sections?

I have no solution, but this sounds like the same problem in Webmin's Software module, all the dpkgs are sorted alphabetically instead of by section. Carsten On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 10:43 pm, Ben Hines wrote: How do i get the "Section:" to show up in dpkg's /sw/var/lib/dpkg/availa

[Fink-devel] dpkg 'available' file - sections?

How do i get the "Section:" to show up in dpkg's /sw/var/lib/dpkg/available file? I checked an old fink install (on the compile farm..) and it does have the Section: listed for each package. However, my local copy does not. Does it only get written for binary installed items? I also tried apt-g

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-1.9.20-2 breaks scanpackages and apt-get

And the one after that fixes it :) On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 04:18 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > The new dpkg-1.9.20-2 prints the messages > > Reading version > This is Mac OS X 10.1.3 > > This breaks fink scanpackages, because it writes many copies of these > messages into the Packages.gz f

[Fink-devel] dpkg-1.9.20-2 breaks scanpackages and apt-get

The new dpkg-1.9.20-2 prints the messages Reading version This is Mac OS X 10.1.3 This breaks fink scanpackages, because it writes many copies of these messages into the Packages.gz files. These can then no longer be parsed by apt-get update. On the fink compile server: % zcat /sw/fink/dists/

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg deleted my /etc directory

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 tha

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg deleted my /etc directory

At 4:18 Uhr + 31.01.2002, Kyle Moffett wrote: [...] >> >>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

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg deleted my /etc directory

> 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! NOOO (This was sent just after I did a complete reformat

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg deleted my /etc directory

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

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg deleted my /etc directory

did you do a dpkg --purge of a pkg that had soemthing in /etc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I know this shouldn't have happened, but dpkg deleted my /etc directory, >didn't even warn me that it was full. It told me about /sbin, but not >/etc ¸.·´^`·.,][JFH][`·.,¸¸.·´][JFH][¸.·´^`·.,

[Fink-devel] Dpkg deleted my /etc directory

I know this shouldn't have happened, but dpkg deleted my /etc directory, didn't even warn me that it was full. It told me about /sbin, but not /etc I was testing a package I was making, and I fixed a little prob with a file location. Then I did fink rebuild dhcp, and the thing killed /etc G