Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> wrote: > Is the problem that there are "post-install" scripts and the like that are > essentially shell scripts that must be run native? Can the installation of > files, which can be done "cleanly" to another filesystem, and the running > of scripts, be separated? Yes, run dpkg --unpack _____ chrooted, then dpkg --configure --pending natively. -- Raul