The Dropline Installer takes its package information from a database file.  
This file is a simple text document broken up by new-line characters.  Each
line contains eight fields of information, delimited by colons, and desribed 
below:

Field 1: Full file name of the package
Field 2: Status of the package, either "required", "optional", or "obsolete"
Field 3: Short package description
Field 4: System status of the package, either "remove" or "keep".
Field 5: MD5 checksum
Field 6: Size of the package, in bytes
Field 7: Comma-separated list of distributions package applies to
Field 8: Package category

An example line is below:

dropline-installer-2.0.2-i386-1.tgz:required:The Dropline Installation system (required):remove:f6e2d55ab35eaa6e1203b5d141239230:13993:s,c:Base
