| Pat's partially right, but I really hope that's not what you're going for...
It appears that in PackageMaker you can add a sub-package, and specify an http URL (you have to pick custom from the list, i couldn't figure out how to enable the real http option), this is about as much testing as I did with it:
For distribution purposes the package you call would have to be a 10.5 or greater-only flat package, it couldn't be the 10.4 era bundle, which requires a container (zip, dmg) for distribution.
I would be curious what your endgame would be? Reducing initial download to the minimum then downloading on-demand only what the user selects?
To some extent you could accomplish some of that with a plugin, but you'd be breaking any and all hope of that package ever getting deployed en masse via ARD (or most other tools, without a repackage by some poor sysadmin (like me)), and you're dependent upon the reliablity of the end-user's internet for a successful install. Microsoft does the download-on-demand stuff with several of their pieces, as it drives me $&$^ing nuts and makes things much more complicated than they need be.
-nick
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On Mar 23, 2010, at 19:16, Patrick Gallagher wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Paul Sanders <email@hidden> wrote:
I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no, but is there a
way to construct a package such that the OS X installer downloads part of the
content, rather than expecting to find it within the package
itself?
I don't think it can directly, but your preflight/postflight could use curl to download the payload, then install from within the same script.
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