Man, it was awk. That was the cause of it all.
I think fink should ship with its own version of awk! Please!
I see no reason for this yet. Actually, the fink gawk package has /sw/bin/awk, as a symbolic link to /sw/bin/gawk. This has never posed a problem for me.
Last week I had replaced awk with gawk, and then tried a fink selfupdate. The result was that dpkg got corrupted.
Not quite clear what you did. Did you replace the /usr/bin/awk binary by something else? This would really be a bad idea.
Even worse, today, when I replaced the correct version of awk, "fink rebuild dpkg" still wasn't working, because the fink build script uses the *old* version of dpkg to update to the new version!
Yeah, when the dpkg package is damaged, Fink is really in trouble. You are lucky you could get a working dpkg back again.
-- Martin
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