Re: Can I refer to files outside of a .pax archive?
Re: Can I refer to files outside of a .pax archive?
- Subject: Re: Can I refer to files outside of a .pax archive?
- From: Nathan Herring <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:52:42 -0700
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation / Macintosh Business Unit
- Thread-topic: Can I refer to files outside of a .pax archive?
It looks like the key IFPkgFlagAltSourceLocation is related to this use. Is
there a way to use packagemaker(1) or Package Maker to produce .pkgs of this
type, or is this a build-your-own? Also, I don't see this key listed in the
documentation for Package Maker, nor by Googling with
site:developer.apple.com.
(Not that mkbom is hard to use, but it suffers from the same problem of
wanting to record the items as /Suite Foo/Bar.app and getting everything
else in /Suite Foo/)
-nh
On 6/29/06 2:19 PM, "Peter Bierman" <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 7:02 PM -0700 6/28/06, Nathan Herring wrote:
>> It seems that the uncompressed option merely generates a very large
>> .pax file in the resulting .pkg file. Is there a way to just have an
>> package refer to bits already unpaxed? The idea here is that on the
>> installation disc, there's a full installation that you can
>> drag-n-drop, but if you really want to, you can run the installer.
>> I'd prefer not to have to duplicate the data (one full set + one
>> compressed set), but rather just have the installer refer to the
>> files already layed out on the CD.
>
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> Yes, this is possible. The BaseSystem.pkg on the InstallCD/DVD uses
> this method.
>
> -pmb
--
Nathan Herring
MacBU SDE/Development
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