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Re: 1.3.0-apple2 and X11 Package Preview

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

On Dec 2, 2007, at 03:03, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: 

Hmm, I didn't know a .pkg could be a single file.  It seems they
always come as a bundle wrapped in a .dmg instead, which makes it
easier to look inside if one is so inclined.  Any specific reason you
went for this solution?  Is it easier to build that way?

Yeah, I noticed that too. I didn't choose it this way, it's just how it happened. I first put it in a dmg, but then noticed that it was just a file and not a dir. I set Leopard as the minimum requirement, so maybe Leopard's installer has support for single file packages (maybe bzipped tarballs with some meta-data... but I dunno).

These new one-file pkgs are xar archives. The Leopard system DVD uses them, too. To list their contents:

 xar -tf X11-2.1.0.pkg

To extract into the current directory:

 xar -xf X11-2.1.0.pkg

After this, you have a structure like inside a traditional *.pkg bundle. The files "Payload" and "Scripts" are gzipped pax archives, like the traditional "Archive.pax.gz".

--
Martin


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