Re: Query for package id
Re: Query for package id
- Subject: Re: Query for package id
- From: "Charles E. Heizer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:50:32 -0700
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: Query for package id
Hi Greg,
Thanks, I had a feeling that was the answer :-(
Charles
On Jul 15, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Greg Neagle wrote:
> In Leopard, pkgutil doesn't have info on all installed packages; it
> tracks only the new Leopard flat packages.
> What you have to do is first check pkgutil:
>
> pkgutil --pkg-info <pkgid>
>
> If that turns up nothing, you'll need to loop through all the receipts
> in /Library/Receipts and examine the Info.plist files:
>
> /Library/Receipts/PackageName.pkg/Contents/Info.plist
>
> From the Info.plist, you'll need to look at CFBundleIdentifier and
> CFBundleShortVersionString.
> Some packages also have a version.plist at /Library/Receipts/
> PackageName.pkg/Contents/version.plist, which has additional version
> info.
>
> There's some Python code to do all of this in munki -- http://*code.google.com/p/munki
>
> -Greg
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Charles E. Heizer wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm looking at creating a script to see if a package has been
>> installed. So I have been looking through the man pages on pkgutil
>> and
>> installer and I dont see a logical way to join the two.
>>
>> If I run "installer -pkginfo -verbose" on a pkg I get some useful
>> information but no package identifiers or package identifier version.
>> So what is the best approach to query pkgutil for a package if you
>> dont have a package identifier?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Charles
>
>
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