Re: How to include a distribution script flat package in another distribution script project?
Re: How to include a distribution script flat package in another distribution script project?
- Subject: Re: How to include a distribution script flat package in another distribution script project?
- From: "Kennedy, Smith (Macintosh Software - IPG MCT)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:18:25 +0000
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: How to include a distribution script flat package in another distribution script project?
On Sep 2, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Iceberg-Dev wrote:
>
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 7:25 PM, Kennedy, Smith (Macintosh Software - IPG
> MCT) wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> [...] my E.pmdoc, even though add C and D to the project, D comes
>> up as a
>> question mark. When I build E.pkg, it includes C but not D.
>>
>> Is there something I am doing wrong or is this just outside the
>> capability of distribution scripts? If the latter, then it seems
>> that
>> distribution scripts are less capable than metapackages to create
>> installers where a large number of software components need to be
>> gathered together.
>
> You can not have a distribution script as a component of another
> distribution script.
I was hoping I just didn't know what I was doing, rather than it being
a limitation of the distribution script technology. This is really
disappointing (I'm sure I am not even remotely the first person to
voice this, given the age of distribution scripts). I hope this is a
foolish oversight rather than a "feature" (conscious decision made by
the designers) intended to prevent the re-distribution of other
packages. If so, it is a lousy way to implement this. Deciding
whether a package should be re-distributable or not is a policy
decision best decided by the developers using PackageMaker to deploy
their software.
>
> You need to merge the 2 distribution scripts into one.
How does one go about doing that? Does that mean I need to merge
D.pmdoc and E.pmdoc? If so, and I don't have access to D.pmdoc
because it comes from someone else (third party who isn't sharing),
what are my options aside from doing a "pkgutil --expand" etc.?
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