Some people worried that cupt has a lot of dependencies, so it's uninstallable on very limited systems. I probably have good news for them:


$ dpkg -l | grep perl
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-4 Using libc functions for internationalizatio
ii perl-base 5.10.1-6 minimal Perl system

$ ./cupt-compiled-i386 -s full-upgrade
Building the package cache... [done]
Initializing package resolver and worker... [done]
Scheduling requested actions... [done]
Resolving possible unmet dependencies...
The following 15 packages will be INSTALLED:

dash gnupg-curl insserv install-info libc-bin libc6-i686 libdb4.7 [...]

The following 118 packages will be UPGRADED:

apt apt-utils base-files base-passwd bash bsdmainutils coreutils cpio [...]

Need to get 48.5MiB/56.0MiB of archives. After unpacking 46.7MiB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [y/N/q] q

$ wc -c ./cupt-compiled-i386
3584686 ./cupt-compiled-i386


This is a part of the log from my i386 chroot.

The only extra dependency for the binary is 'libcurl3-gnutls' for downloading from http/https/ftp. It does not need even perl-base to work, but I can't remove perl-base from the system as it's essential.

PAR rocks.