Re: creating pkg without PackageMaker
Re: creating pkg without PackageMaker
- Subject: Re: creating pkg without PackageMaker
- From: Nick Blievers <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:39:12 +1100
Its possible, and its pretty easy to dissect an older style .pkg bundle. The main sections are:
-the bill of materials file (.bom) which can be examined with lsbom and created with mkbom
-the archive itself (pax.gz) which can be unzipped with gunzip, and pax (pax is somewhat like tar)
-The Info.plist file, which describes the package, and any extra scripts etc which are run.
Newer .pkg (flat) are slightly trickier, but not by much. They are a xar file of (more or less) the above.
So, the answer to your question is that I haven't seen any repository of information... but its fairly easily retrieved just by poking around.
Hope this helps,
Nick
On 01/03/2011, at 2:29 PM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
> Q) Are you looking for articles on alternate software like Composer, The
> Luggage, or Iceberg? Googling their names shows a few.
>
> A) Nope
>
>
> I'm looking to understand the structure of a package so I can create one programmatically for an end-user.
> The idea is that my software will create a package without requiring Developer tools to be installed.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> jeremy _______________________________________________
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