Re: Building distribution package on the commandline
Re: Building distribution package on the commandline
- Subject: Re: Building distribution package on the commandline
- From: Jeremy Reichman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:01:12 -0400
- Thread-topic: Building distribution package on the commandline
If you aren't making a flat package, you could try having a
distribution.dist file separately set up the way you want from the GUI
tools. Build the bundle package, copy out the distribution.dist file, and
stuff into your real package created with the command line packagemaker
tool.
Warning: I had annoying problems with the distribution.dist created by
PackageMaker 3 from Snow Leopard. It produced different code from
PackageMaker 3 on Leopard. The Snow Leopard-created version wouldn't run
correctly on a Leopard system -- at least when I stuffed the
distribution.dist into an existing package in this manner. (Did not file in
Radar.)
I was trying out something like this so that I could get requirements set up
for a package. I abandoned this process in favor of creating not-flat
packages with InstallationCheck and VolumeCheck scripts. You lose the
built-in convenience functions (as far as I know you can't use the
JavaScript-style requirements in these scripts) but you can create them in
the scripting language of your choice (assuming those scripting languages
and versions match what'll be on your expected target OSes).
--
Jeremy
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