condition of dpkg?

[Kim B. Heino]

Hi Paul,

I somehow missed your original post.

>  > someone was asking me whether the implementation of dpkg in
>  > busybox was useful and/or complete enough to use in any sort
>  > of a product environment.

We are using BusyBox's dpkg in our Access Server product. It's complete 
and stable enough for production environment.

> dpkg.c, however, has been getting recent bugfixes.

I think most of them are submitted by me. :-)

>  > works?  if the space were available, would using the "real"
>  > dpkg be a better idea?

Yes. For example, you can't create deb-file with BusyBox (ok, you can, 
manually with tar + ar), you can only install them. BusyBox is also 
missing support for md5 check.