This reverts commit
30e0c58d1dd851a00bf7decc6182e3948c10a545.
* turns out we do depend on the default nginx.conf and directories provided by the distribution package
* notably /etc/nginx.conf and /etc/nginx/conf.d
tar zxf nginx-$VERSION.tar.gz
cd nginx-$VERSION
-# build dependencies
-apt install -y libpcre3 libpcre3-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev
+# nginx-common for boilerplate files etc.
+apt install -y nginx-common libpcre3 libpcre3-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev
cd /tmp
# this is the reason we are compiling by hand...