After a week of working on the package management support as per my contract with Haiku, Inc., I have reached my first milestone: The base system is packaged... and it boots again. Here's a short account of what I have been doing exactly and what I'm up to next.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/bonefish/2011-06-20_package_management_system_package/