diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
index 6eec2cd..3d9e7e3 100644
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 		--without-selinux \
 		"
 
-EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-target = " TAR=tar"
+EXTRA_OECONF += "TAR=tar"
 
 do_configure () {
     echo >> ${S}/m4/compiler.m4
diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg/0001-When-running-do_package_write_deb-we-have-trees-of-h.patch b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg/0001-When-running-do_package_write_deb-we-have-trees-of-h.patch
index 6967ef4..49ef853 100644
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg/0001-When-running-do_package_write_deb-we-have-trees-of-h.patch
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg/0001-When-running-do_package_write_deb-we-have-trees-of-h.patch
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-From d14ffd786993da60ca84c4812da8a6594a8c764e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From e391bdba238d1371fc5b67cdae08b06eb5ada5c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:48:13 +0300
-Subject: [PATCH 1/5] When running do_package_write_deb, we have trees of
+Subject: [PATCH] When running do_package_write_deb, we have trees of
  hardlinked files such as the dbg source files in ${PN}-dbg. If something
  makes another copy of one of those files (or deletes one), the number of
  links a file has changes and tar can notice this, e.g.:
@@ -19,23 +19,43 @@
 Upstream-Status: Inappropriate
 RP 2015/3/27
 ---
- dpkg-deb/build.c | 11 ++++++++---
- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+ dpkg-deb/build.c | 12 ++++++++----
+ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 
 diff --git a/dpkg-deb/build.c b/dpkg-deb/build.c
-index ea3d861..1589927 100644
+index 2ddeec6..af363f0 100644
 --- a/dpkg-deb/build.c
 +++ b/dpkg-deb/build.c
-@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ do_build(const char *const *argv)
+@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ static void
+ tarball_pack(const char *dir, filenames_feed_func *tar_filenames_feeder,
+              struct compress_params *tar_compress_params, int fd_out)
+ {
+-  int pipe_filenames[2], pipe_tarball[2];
++  int pipe_filenames[2], pipe_tarball[2], rc;
+   pid_t pid_tar, pid_comp;
+ 
+   /* Fork off a tar. We will feed it a list of filenames on stdin later. */
+@@ -493,7 +493,9 @@ tarball_pack(const char *dir, filenames_feed_func *tar_filenames_feeder,
+   /* All done, clean up wait for tar and <compress> to finish their job. */
+   close(pipe_filenames[1]);
+   subproc_reap(pid_comp, _("<compress> from tar -cf"), 0);
+-  subproc_reap(pid_tar, "tar -cf", 0);
++  rc = subproc_reap(pid_tar, "tar -cf", SUBPROC_RETERROR);
++  if (rc && rc != 1)
++    ohshite(_("subprocess %s returned error exit status %d"), "tar -cf", rc);
+ }
+ 
+ /**
+@@ -509,7 +511,7 @@ do_build(const char *const *argv)
    char *debar;
    char *tfbuf;
    int arfd;
--  int p1[2], p2[2], gzfd;
-+  int p1[2], p2[2], gzfd, rc;
+-  int p1[2], gzfd;
++  int p1[2], gzfd, rc;
    pid_t c1, c2;
  
    /* Decode our arguments. */
-@@ -538,7 +538,9 @@ do_build(const char *const *argv)
+@@ -590,7 +592,9 @@ do_build(const char *const *argv)
    }
    close(p1[0]);
    subproc_reap(c2, _("<compress> from tar -cf"), 0);
@@ -46,18 +66,6 @@
  
    if (lseek(gzfd, 0, SEEK_SET))
      ohshite(_("failed to rewind temporary file (%s)"), _("control member"));
-@@ -626,7 +628,10 @@ do_build(const char *const *argv)
-   /* All done, clean up wait for tar and <compress> to finish their job. */
-   close(p1[1]);
-   subproc_reap(c2, _("<compress> from tar -cf"), 0);
--  subproc_reap(c1, "tar -cf", 0);
-+  rc = subproc_reap(c1, "tar -cf", SUBPROC_RETERROR);
-+  if (rc && rc != 1)
-+    ohshite(_("subprocess %s returned error exit status %d"), "tar -cf", rc);
-+
-   /* Okay, we have data.tar as well now, add it to the ar wrapper. */
-   if (deb_format.major == 2) {
-     char datamember[16 + 1];
 -- 
-2.1.4
+2.7.0
 
diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg/0006-add-musleabi-to-known-target-tripets.patch b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg/0006-add-musleabi-to-known-target-tripets.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6b0088
--- /dev/null
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg/0006-add-musleabi-to-known-target-tripets.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+From f8910022dc3ec622272f168cd0022dbdf6dff93a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 23:05:41 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] add musleabi to known target tripets
+
+helps compiling dpkg for musl/arm-softfloat
+
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+---
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+ ostable      | 1 +
+ triplettable | 1 +
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/ostable b/ostable
+index 3bb6819..d0ffdc7 100644
+--- a/ostable
++++ b/ostable
+@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
+ uclibceabi-linux	linux-uclibceabi	linux[^-]*-uclibceabi
+ uclibc-linux		linux-uclibc		linux[^-]*-uclibc
+ musleabihf-linux	linux-musleabihf	linux[^-]*-musleabihf
++musleabi-linux		linux-musleabi		linux[^-]*-musleabi
+ musl-linux		linux-musl		linux[^-]*-musl
+ gnueabihf-linux		linux-gnueabihf		linux[^-]*-gnueabihf
+ gnueabi-linux		linux-gnueabi		linux[^-]*-gnueabi
+diff --git a/triplettable b/triplettable
+index 1213584..70d24c1 100644
+--- a/triplettable
++++ b/triplettable
+@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
+ uclibceabi-linux-arm	uclibc-linux-armel
+ uclibc-linux-<cpu>	uclibc-linux-<cpu>
+ musleabihf-linux-arm	musl-linux-armhf
++musleabi-linux-arm	musl-linux-armel
+ musl-linux-<cpu>	musl-linux-<cpu>
+ gnueabihf-linux-arm	armhf
+ gnueabi-linux-arm	armel
+-- 
+2.6.4
+
diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg/CVE-2015-0860.patch b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg/CVE-2015-0860.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f259d3..0000000
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg/CVE-2015-0860.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-From f1aac7d933819569bf6f347c3c0d5a64a90bbce0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Hanno=20B=C3=B6ck?= <hanno@hboeck.de>
-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:03:10 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] dpkg-deb: Fix off-by-one write access on ctrllenbuf variable
-
-This affects old format .deb packages.
-
-Fixes: CVE-2015-0860
-Warned-by: afl
-Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
-
-Upstream-Status: Backport
-
-https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?h=wheezy&id=f1aac7d933819569bf6f347c3c0d5a64a90bbce0
-
-CVE: CVE-2015-0860
-
-hand merge Changelog
-
-Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
-
----
- debian/changelog   | 3 +++
- dpkg-deb/extract.c | 2 +-
- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-Index: dpkg-1.18.2/dpkg-deb/extract.c
-===================================================================
---- dpkg-1.18.2.orig/dpkg-deb/extract.c
-+++ dpkg-1.18.2/dpkg-deb/extract.c
-@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ extracthalf(const char *debar, const cha
-     if (errstr)
-       ohshit(_("archive has invalid format version: %s"), errstr);
- 
--    r = read_line(arfd, ctrllenbuf, 1, sizeof(ctrllenbuf));
-+    r = read_line(arfd, ctrllenbuf, 1, sizeof(ctrllenbuf) - 1);
-     if (r < 0)
-       read_fail(r, debar, _("archive control member size"));
-     if (sscanf(ctrllenbuf, "%jd%c%d", &ctrllennum, &nlc, &dummy) != 2 ||
-Index: dpkg-1.18.2/ChangeLog
-===================================================================
---- dpkg-1.18.2.orig/ChangeLog
-+++ dpkg-1.18.2/ChangeLog
-@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
-+[ Guillem Jover ]
-+  * Fix an off-by-one write access in dpkg-deb when parsing the old format
-+    .deb control member size. Thanks to Hanno Böck <hanno@hboeck.de>.
-+    Fixes CVE-2015-0860.
-+
- commit 5459d330c73cdcfd1327bc93c0ebddc2da4a3a3a (HEAD -> master, tag: 1.18.2)
- Author: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
- Date:   Mon Aug 3 15:41:05 2015 +0200
diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg_1.18.2.bb b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg_1.18.4.bb
similarity index 70%
rename from yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg_1.18.2.bb
rename to yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg_1.18.4.bb
index 2fc096d..7876944 100644
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg_1.18.2.bb
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg_1.18.4.bb
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 require dpkg.inc
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 
+SRC_URI_append_class-native =" file://glibc2.5-sync_file_range.patch "
 SRC_URI += "file://noman.patch \
             file://remove-tar-no-timestamp.patch \
             file://fix-abs-redefine.patch \
             file://arch_pm.patch \
             file://dpkg-configure.service \
-            file://glibc2.5-sync_file_range.patch \
             file://add_armeb_triplet_entry.patch \
 	    file://0002-Adapt-to-linux-wrs-kernel-version-which-has-characte.patch \
 	    file://0003-Our-pre-postinsts-expect-D-to-be-set-when-running-in.patch \
 	    file://0004-The-lutimes-function-doesn-t-work-properly-for-all-s.patch \
 	    file://0005-dpkg-compiler.m4-remove-Wvla.patch \
-        file://CVE-2015-0860.patch \
+	    file://0006-add-musleabi-to-known-target-tripets.patch \
            "
 
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "63b9d869081ec49adeef6c5ff62d6576"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "11484f2a73d027d696e720a60380db71978bb5c06cd88fe30c291e069ac457a4"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "e95b513c89693f6ec3ab53b6b1c3defd"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "fe89243868888ce715bf45861f26264f767d4e4dbd0d6f1a26ce60bbbbf106da"