Re: Making pax archives for Installer
Re: Making pax archives for Installer
- Subject: Re: Making pax archives for Installer
- From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:36:04 -0700
At 8:50 AM +0200 10/23/06, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
On lundi, octobre 23, 2006, at 06:20 AM, Peter Mulholland wrote:
Hello installer-dev,
I'm creating Installer packages completely by hand (don't ask ;) and I'm
trying to get pax to generate archives that Installer will swallow.
I've been using "pax -w -z -f Archive.pax.gz ." to archive the folder
containing the package data, which produces a valid archive, but whenever
I use that in an Installer .pkg, Installer complains it's an out-of-date
format and proceeds no further. Examining archives generated via
Iceberg provided me with no clues...
I haven't yet tried using the -x flag... which pax format is
Installer expecting?
Installer.app supports the cpio format:
pax -w -z -x cpio -f Archive.pax.gz
You can also use the 'ditto' command to create
the CPIO archive. Pax is more of a historic
footnote for the installer now.
-pmb
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