#####Creating temporary links linking to /tools/bin/bash
In order the for pre and post-installation scripts that come inside a standard .deb file to work, these need to be able to have access to a shell. These typically either specify using `/bin/sh` or `/bin/bash`. Without access to a shell at the exact location that the script specifies, the installation script will fail thus causing the installation of the package itself to fail.
We must mitigate this problem by making sure that the `/bin` directory already exists, and then creating symlinks from these two locations towards the bash we have in our temporary `/tools` environment.
When we get to the point of installing debian's "priority:essential" packages, which include both of these shells, these symlinks will be overwritten with native copies of these binaries.
```
mkdir /bin
ln /tools/bin/bash /bin/bash
ln /tools/bin/bash /bin/sh
```
### Installing dpkg
With our `/tools` environment completely set up, we are ready to directly compile and install `dpkg` into our target environment. Replace the `build` variable with the appropriate architecture if it isn't 64-bit (which I am assuming that it is):
@@ -165,6 +152,19 @@ We need to create `dpkg`'s database, which is merely a text file located in `/va
`touch /var/lib/dpkg/status`
#####Creating temporary links linking to /tools/bin/bash
In order the for pre and post-installation scripts that come inside a standard .deb file to work, these need to be able to have access to a shell. These typically either specify using `/bin/sh` or `/bin/bash`. Without access to a shell at the exact location that the script specifies, the installation script will fail thus causing the installation of the package itself to fail.
We must mitigate this problem by making sure that the `/bin` directory already exists, and then creating symlinks from these two locations towards the bash we have in our temporary `/tools` environment.
When we get to the point of installing debian's "priority:essential" packages, which include both of these shells, these symlinks will be overwritten with native copies of these binaries.
