Re[2]: problem with copying app bundle
Re[2]: problem with copying app bundle
- Subject: Re[2]: problem with copying app bundle
- From: Peter Mulholland <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:22:53 +0100
Hello bert,
Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 3:56:49 PM, you wrote:
> OK... I figured out that I should be using CpMac from
> /Developer/Tools to copy app bundles. I found this out while reading about cp at
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Articles/FilesAndFinder.html
This is only really necessary if some of your files rely on the
resources fork. Basically, files on a HFS+ file system have two parts,
the data fork and the resource fork. The data fork is the normal file
data as you would expect - but extra data can be stored in the
resource fork. Traditionally MacOS stored important stuff here, but
more recently, the resource fork is not used much.
> coming from Win XP and Linux, I have a really hard time
> understanding how copying an application can break it so badly that
> it starts to crash ... can anyone shed some light on this?
If you want to zip from the console, make sure you use the -y option
to preserve symlinks - otherwise zip will follow them and create
havoc.
--
Best regards,
Peter mailto:email@hidden
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