I did a first cut at bootstrapping the CURRENT version of OpenPKG
on a new Mac OS X Tiger system with all updates installed. The
build failed in what looks to me may be a problem in the way it's
building the libraries (ranlib perhaps). I have built relatively
recent versions of OpenPKG on OS X
OpenPKG add boot scripts using symlinks and shell commands. This way is
discouraged under Debian. A tool is provided to do this, update-rc.d. The
most important benefit of using update-rc.d is get compatibility with the
other boot mechanism available, file-rc.
So if you are using file-rc