Now makes the diversions file .. this is cool.

yard/scripts/make_debian

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 
-#    make_debian from gBootRoot Copyright (C) 2000, 2001
+#    make_debian Copyright (C) 2001 from gBootRoot
 #    Lead Developer and Project Coordinator
 #    Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource@users.sourceforge.net>
 #
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ close(MY_FILERC);
 sub stuff {
 
 $stuff = << "STUFF";
+# Generated by make_debian.
+
 # This template creates a complete Debian system which is more streamlined 
 # than the base.tgz used for normal installations.  Once everything is made, 
 # you can use user-mode-linux to tweak the system, as well as apt. 
@@ -304,7 +306,8 @@ return $stuff;
 # Conffiles would have to be handled both before and after Root Filesystem
 # creation so that their md5sums could be accounted for in status.
 #
-# And this finds all the scripts associated with a package in info/*.
+# And this finds all the scripts associated with a package in info/*,
+# creates an empty available file, and creates the diversions file.
 
 sub status_info {
 
@@ -331,12 +334,46 @@ close(NEW_STATUS);
 close(STATUS);
 $/ = "\n";
 
+my %dpkg_divert = [];
+my $dpkg_divert = "dpkg-divert --list|";
+open(DIVERT,"$dpkg_divert") 
+    or die "Couldn't find the dpkg-divert command: $!\n";
+while (<DIVERT>) {
+    
+    my($original,$diversion,$package) = (split(" "))[2,4,6];
+    chomp $package;
+    if (!$dpkg_divert{$package}) { # Just add to the array
+	$dpkg_divert{$package} = [$original,$diversion];	
+    }
+    else {
+	push @{ $dpkg_divert {$package} }, $original, $diversion;
+    }
+
+}
+close(DIVERT);
+
+open(DIVERT,">$home_yard_replacements/var/lib/dpkg/diversions")
+    or die "Couldn't open Replacements/var/lib/dpkg/diversions: $!\n";
 my @info;
 foreach my $rp (@required_packages) {
     $rp = (split(/_/,$rp))[0];
     # Get rid of the escapes from the previous invocation.
     $rp =~ s/\\//g if $rp =~ /\\+/g;
 
+    my $count = 0; my @divert;
+    if ($dpkg_divert{$rp}) {
+            foreach my $dv ( @{ $dpkg_divert{$rp} } ) {
+		push(@divert,$dv);
+		if ($count == 1) {
+		    print DIVERT "$divert[0]\n";
+		    print DIVERT "$divert[1]\n";
+		    print DIVERT "$rp\n";
+		    $count = -1; undef @divert;
+		}
+		$count++;
+            }
+    }
+
     # Figure out info/*  .. this covers it for now.
     if (-f "$info/$rp.preinst") {
 	push(@info,"$info/$rp.preinst\n");
@@ -366,6 +403,7 @@ foreach my $rp (@required_packages) {
 	push(@info,"$info/$rp.config\n");        
     }
 }
+close(DIVERT);
 
 return @info;