Customizing a Mac Installer Package
Customizing a Mac Installer Package
- Subject: Customizing a Mac Installer Package
- From: "Bradley O'Hearne" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:36:12 -0700
Hello,
I am working on an app which for the present version, must be installed via an installer package. The next version will be a Mac App Store app, so this won’t be a concern then. But for the time being, the app has its own package installer.
In Xcode (current version), when you create and distribute an archive, and attempt to export the option for “Mac Installer Package” it creates an installer package that we need to customize. Presently we are using the sorely outdated and deprecated PackageMaker app which came with auxiliary tools several Xcode versions ago. Aside from the obvious reasons this is undesirable, it makes building a two-step process where it only need be one, and also has presented some signing issues in the past.
What I am trying to accomplish is being able to customize the installer with some simple branding and addition of a few extra files which need to be installed, and I would like do drive it all from Xcode, such that exporting the “Mac Installer Package” in the UI creates this custom installer — I don’t know if there’s a way to have that process hook a config file, or something like that, but that’s the idea.
Can this be done, and if so, can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Brad
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