Re: updaters
Re: updaters
- Subject: Re: updaters
- From: Greg Neagle <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:41:35 -0800
You can read them with lsbom; you can make them with mkbom.
If you pipe lsbom's output to a text file and then edit it, you can
use mkbom -i textfile to make a new bom from the edit.
man lsbom
man mkbom
for more info.
-Greg
On Feb 19, 2009, at 6:51 AM, Glover,David wrote:
Just out of interest how do you open / edit .bom files?
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On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Greg Neagle wrote:
As a systems administrator, I expect the changes an installation
package makes to be documented in the Archive.bom (for bundle-style
receipts), or in the receipts database (for Leopard-style flat
packages). I don't expect to have to reverse engineer what a
postinstall script installed.
What's possible to do is this:
- have a .bom file that describes what will get installed.
- install nothing from the pax payload
- install everything from a postinstall script.
It just requires to build a standard package and a package that
installs nothing. You then replace the .pax[.gz] payload with the one
from the empty package. When you install this package through
Installer.app (tested on Tiger):
- when you display the list of files from the UI, it lists the files
- when you run the installation, it installs nothing and succeeds.
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