Apple

On Jun 22, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Vikram Singh wrote:

Apple provides a command line utility 'pkgutil' to work with packages. So, instead of using xar command, you can use pkgutil command to expand and flatten the packages.
pkgutil --expand yourPkg.pkg Temp.pkg
Modify your distribution file.
pkgutil --flatten Temp.pkg yourPkg.pkg
Even I have been using the same approach to overcome this bug in packagemaker. Though it is not a cleaner way to do this, but it works and so far I didn't find any other solution.
Thanks,
Vikram

On Jun 23, 2012 1:53 AM, "Mitchell Laurren-Ring" <email@hidden> wrote:

Since nobody has responded, I've begun implementing a workaround:

1) Create pkg using packagemaker (target=10.5)
2) Expand the archive using "xar -xf"

3) Modify the Distribution xml file to include the 3 additional lines
4) Re-archive using "xar -cf"

Because our build process is automated, I'm learning about XSLT and xsltproc to modify the Distribution file.

Any pointers or criticisms of the workaround are welcome!

/Mick

On Jun 20, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Mitchell Laurren-Ring <email@hidden> wrote:

Hey all:

I recently changed our build script to use "--target 10.5" with the packagemaker command. We were previously using "--target 10.3" but switched to the flat package so that we could sign it. This has caused an unforeseen and apparently undocumented problem with our use of "--resources" in that none of our resources (license, welcome, background) are picked up by the installer at run-time.

Extensive googling tells me that this is a known issue and to fix it I need to modify the Distribution file inside the package. The only two solutions I've seen involve creating the package, unarchiving, modifying the Distribution file and the re-archiving. Obviously, this is sub-optimal.

I note that there is a "--info" option for packagemaker but I can't find any info about the format of the file that goes with it. From what I've seen elsewhere, I'm quite sure the contents will include something like the following:

<background file="background" alignment="topleft" scaling="none"/>
<welcome file="Welcome"/>
<license file="License"/>

Is there a way I can include this in a file and have it merged with the Distribution file that packagemaker generates? Even better, can I get packagemaker to properly generate the XML to use the resources folder?

/Mick

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References:
	>Packagemaker command line options (From: Mitchell Laurren-Ring <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Packagemaker command line options (From: Mitchell Laurren-Ring <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Packagemaker command line options (From: Vikram Singh <email@hidden>)