Thanks rattis! I'll probably take a look at that one. I currently have the gregale version semi-installed, there are some dependency complaints (as I needed some modules too), but it's working well enough that I got dpkg-repack working (well had to struggle with replacements for busybox' retarted find/tar versions too). I'll check out the canola stuff though, as it seems to be specifially for bora.
Thanks again!