On May 29, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote:
BTW, it would be neat to have my server to generate .dmg too, but
I'm not aware of any hdiutil compatible tool that runs on Linux.
Any hint?
I think this came up on the list not too long ago. There was some
opinion that it might make an interesting open source project.
Considering that it's a Apple proprietary format, covers a lot of
different formats, I thought this might not be the case. You would
have to keep up with Apple without a lot of documentation,
examples, or open source reference implementations provided by
them. You could possibly take some small subset and try to maintain
it cross-platform. There is zip/jar an existing cross-platform
format used to distribute java content. There is JNLP and WebStart
which Apple provides support for and an implementation of.
What would be the advantage of cross-platform disk images?
Linux has support for HFS file systems available in the vanilla
kernel source (however, it is not usually compiled into 'stock'
kernels e.g. from Fedora). With this support you can mount a .dmg
image and populate it however you wish. There are also a number of
HFS utilities available for GNU/Linux. So, generating custom .dmg
files from GNU/Linux is quite possible. However, if you're looking
for a cross platform archive format, .zip is the best choice. If you
need a cross platform disk image (e.g. so that it may be burned into
boot-able media), ISO 9660 would be the best choice.
Cheers,
Dominic Blais
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