diff --git a/base/dpkg/.gitignore b/base/dpkg/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..95e75bdf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/dpkg/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+!.distro
+.distro/centos7/rpmbuild/RPMS
+.distro/centos7/rpmbuild/SRPMS
+.distro/centos7/rpmbuild/BUILD
+.distro/centos7/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT
+.distro/centos7/rpmbuild/SOURCES/dpkg*tar.gz
diff --git a/base/dpkg/README b/base/dpkg/README
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..27334c74c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/dpkg/README
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Many Titanium Cloud init services are using start-stop-daemon.  It's not available under
+centos.  Just pull it from dpkg but don't install everything.
+
+Source: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dpkg/
diff --git a/base/dpkg/centos/build_srpm.data b/base/dpkg/centos/build_srpm.data
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..129d3fbad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/dpkg/centos/build_srpm.data
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+COPY_LIST="$CGCS_BASE/downloads/dpkg_1.18.24.tar.xz"
+TIS_PATCH_VER=1
diff --git a/base/dpkg/centos/dpkg.spec b/base/dpkg/centos/dpkg.spec
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b893ebedc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/dpkg/centos/dpkg.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+Summary: dpkg
+Name: dpkg
+Version: 1.18.24
+Release: 0%{?_tis_dist}.%{tis_patch_ver}
+License: GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and Public Domain and BSD
+Group: base
+Packager: Wind River <info@windriver.com>
+URL: unknown
+Source0: %{name}_%{version}.tar.xz
+
+BuildRequires: gcc
+BuildRequires: gcc-c++
+BuildRequires: ncurses-static
+BuildRequires: perl-version
+
+%description
+dpkg
+
+%define local_bindir /usr/bin/
+
+%prep
+%setup
+
+%build
+./configure --prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT \
+            --disable-dselect \
+            --disable-update-alternatives \
+            --without-liblzma
+make -j"%(nproc)"
+
+%install
+# Don't install everything, it's too dangerous
+# make install
+
+install -d -m 755 %{buildroot}%{local_bindir}
+install -p -D -m 700 utils/start-stop-daemon %{buildroot}%{local_bindir}/start-stop-daemon
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT 
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%{local_bindir}/*
diff --git a/centos_pkg_dirs b/centos_pkg_dirs
index 525109da5..52292f2e1 100644
--- a/centos_pkg_dirs
+++ b/centos_pkg_dirs
@@ -126,3 +126,4 @@ kernel/kernel-modules/tpmdd
 kernel/kernel-modules/integrity
 kernel/kernel-modules/drbd
 base/rpm
+base/dpkg