[BusyBox] using dpkg with busybox

[Paul Fox]

kim -- since you weren't the submitter, you may not know that
a version of your dpkg patch is meant to be in the bug system:
    http://bugs.busybox.net/view.php?id=48
unfortunately, the bug links to the mailing list archives, and the
archives don't contain your patch -- the link from the archive to
the attachment repository is broken.
there's also a separate fix here:
    http://bugs.busybox.net/view.php?id=93
but i haven't looked closely enough to know whether it's
sufficient or complete.

perhaps if you have a "good" copy of your fixes, you could attach
them directly to bug 48?

paul

 > 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.
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