Re: [debian-installer] microdpkg
On Mon Aug 21, 2000 at 11:25:55PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > unlike dpkg, dpkg-deb can quite easily be written as a shell script.
>
> I wrote most of it as a shell script, but I cannot find a way to parse
> control file entries w/o using external shell commands, which is
> something of a no-no here.
>
> > may be a better home for it then busybox, which is really a
> > non-debian-specific tool.
>
> Up to Erik though.
I don't mind adding a udpkg to BusyBox -- as long as it is nice and small. If
it starts getting bloated into a full dpkg/dselect/apt type tool, then it will
probably want to stand alone at that point.
-Erik
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