adpkg

[kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

I just had a small problem building a package. Then I remembered that some
time ago, I had installed adpkg, and someone had said something about
incompatibilities.

So, do I still have the thing installed? Yes. Ok, remove it and see if the
problem goes away.

Hey, it claims it's essential. Urgh. Look at the help for removing essential
packages; plan a bug report.

Ok, gone. Now let's see ...

WHAT? Why is there no /usr/bin/dpkg? I didn't ever remove dpkg!

Look in /var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg.list ... oh hell, apparently adpkg used
replaces.

Ok, get the .nodebbin, extract to the local dir, install missing binaries,
install dpkg.

Look at adpkg:


 new debian package, version 2.0.
 size 187100 bytes: control archive= 5376 bytes.
    2584 bytes,    42 lines      checksums                671 bytes,    19  
lines      control                 5409 bytes,   229 lines   *  postinst    
          #!/bin/sh
    2432 bytes,    88 lines   *  preinst              #!/bin/sh
     317 bytes,    11 lines   *  prerm                #!/bin/sh
 Package: adpkg
 Version: 1.4.0.8-3
 Architecture: i386
 Essential: yes
 Pre-Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), ncurses3.0
 Replaces: dpkg
 Provides: dpkg
 Installed-Size: 476
 Maintainer: Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>
 Description: Alternate Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
  This package contains the programs which handle the installation and
  removal of packages on your system.
  .
  The primary interface for the dpkg suite is the `dselect' program;
  a more low-level and less user-friendly interface is available in
  the form of the `dpkg' command.
  .
  This package is building on the regular dpkg package and adds
  some functionality and augments other stuff.

Yes, it's true. He replaces dpkg, but he claims to build on it. It's lying.

[ looking at the archive ]

It's obviously a patched dpkg. Replaces everything in dpkg.

Aaaaaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhh!

Christoph, I want to kill you. Very slow and painfully.