Re: Build metapackages from the command line with PackageMaker 3
Re: Build metapackages from the command line with PackageMaker 3
- Subject: Re: Build metapackages from the command line with PackageMaker 3
- From: Xochitl Lunde <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:12:16 -0600
<installer-dev-bounces+xochitl_lunde=email@hidden>
wrote on 03/10/2010 09:31:38 AM:
> I've come across other posts about this in the archives and on the
'net, but
> have not found a solution, so I'm going to ask again.
>
> Has anyone been able to use the backwards-compatible mode of PackageMaker
> 3's command line tool to build a metapackage installer? If so, I'd
like to
> know the magic to make it work without having created a .pmdoc first.
>
> When I try to build such and installer, I get this:
>
> $ PACKAGE_TITLE="Insert metapackage title here"
> $ /Developer/usr/bin/packagemaker -build -ms "./packages"
\
> -p "./build/$PACKAGE_TITLE.mpkg"
\
> -i "./Info.plist" \
> -v
> Building in backwards compatible mode
> ERROR: No packages to build.
>
> [Fwiw, I've filed this as <rdar://problem/7728789>, because
it happens with
> every metapackage I try to build with any selection of pre-existing
> sub-packages.]
>
> I'm trying to use the backwards compatible mode of
> /Developer/usr/bin/packagemaker so that I don't have to generate a
.pmdoc
> file with the GUI PackageMaker first. It appears that PackageMaker
3's new
> command line options would allow building metapackages if a .pmdoc
was
> present, but I can't see a way to use those new options without having
a
> .pmdoc first.
>
> Thanks!
>
Actually I had a pmdoc that I tried to use on the
command line and it still gave me an error. I wasn't able to get
it to build on the command line even with the pmdoc. Maybe I didn't
get the parameters quite right, but there aren't that many parameters when
building from a pmdoc.
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