Re: Uncompressed archive in package?
Re: Uncompressed archive in package?
- Subject: Re: Uncompressed archive in package?
- From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:26:02 -0700
It is possible with bundle packages. You would need to search the
mailing archive. It's something related to having an external payload.
You would just provide the destination where to install the files, not
a .bom, IIRC.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Nathan Herring
<email@hidden> wrote:
> I'm assisting creating a hybrid installer DVD image. The idea is that there will be a directory of content on the disk (probably hidden in the UI) that needs to get installed. I don't want to actually build a compressed archive inside a .pkg file, but one with just the .bom and a pointer to the actual directory of files sitting there on disk. (This so that the Windows side can access the same set of files.)
>
> My memory is fallible, but I thought that there was a way to build a .pkg in this fashion. The current Software Delivery Guide has no mention of such things. Package Maker seems to only have a way to refer to external .pkg files so they don't have to be included in the top-level .mpkg.
>
> The man page for packagemaker(1) refers to the backwards-compatibility mode -u flag, but it seems to just create a .pax file that is gigantic.
>
> Am I misremembering, or is this just not possible?
>
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