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Re: Static apt for upgrading old Debian releases?



On Tue May 02, 2000 at 11:29:33AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Yes.. and dpkg needs tar, and gzip, and a bunch of other odd ball things
> > (like cat, don't ask)
> 
> The current dpkg no longer needs cat.

Does it use tar and gzip?  What other external dependancies
does it have?  Would it be appropriate to incorporate any/all
of these externs into dpkg (perhaps using the BusyBox utils)?

 -Erik

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