Kyle Moffett wrote:
> 
> I found something interesting here, and I wonder what it means:
> 
> /Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/dpkg/control:
> Package: coreosmakefiles
> Maintainer: Darwin Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Description: Core OS Makefiles
> Build-Depends: cctools, libsystem, files, zsh, gnumake, file-cmds,
> shell-cmds, text-cmds
> 
> I wonder if Apple is using/planning to use dpkg?

They have been using dpkg to install Darwin (as in standalone Darwin,
without OSX) all the time. If you have the Darwin CD or downloaded
Darwin-1.4.1 (very outdated now, but still the latest available), you
have most of the system in the form of *.debs, like

/Darwin/System/Installation/packages/zsh_3.0.8-28_powerpc-apple-darwin.deb
or even
/Darwin/System/Installation/unsupported/xfree86_4.1.0_powerpc-apple-darwin.deb

I count 276 such powerpc-apple-darwin.debs in my Darwin tree.

Darwin has also the full set of dpkg binaries:

% ls /Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg*
/Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg
/Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage
/Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg-deb
/Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg-distaddfile
/Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg-genchanges
/Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol
/Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg-name
/Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg-parsechangelog
/Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages
/Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps
/Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg-source
/Volumes/Software/Darwin/usr/bin/dpkg-split

-- 
Martin

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