[BusyBox] using dpkg with busybox

[Kim B. Heino]

Hi Simon,

> I added your patch to our src tree and that solved the looping problem. Dpkg
> will install the files ok but it does not run the <pkgname>.preinst or
> <pkgname>.postinst scripts that I include in the DEBIAN directory in the

Scripts should be named "preinst", not "pkgname.preinst".

> correctly. Does the control file have to reference the scripts or is there
> existence and filename enough?

Existence is enough.

> Does BB dpkg support the prerm and postrm scripts too?

It should, but I haven't checked. Let me know if not and I'll fix it.

> Any ideas? It would be handy if you had a small, dependency free package
> file I could examine that includes a script. :)

I'll email you some test packages.