It occured recently to me that requiring dpkg to be installed for the .debI think it may be required to build the package database on to the target system but
installation method of the Hurd is a nuisance for a significant number of
people (as evidenced by periodic postings to this list) Since the cross-install
scripts only use dpkg as a simple archive extractor, it seems like we should
be able to replace it with calls to ar, tar, and gzip by fiddling with
dpkg-hurd a little bit. I looked over the script and it looks quite doable,
probably the work of a few hours at most. Does anyone know of any reason
that this wouldn't be possible? If not, I may look into it this evening..
I am not sure.
