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Re: Packagemaker command line options
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Re: Packagemaker command line options


  • Subject: Re: Packagemaker command line options
  • From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:10:51 +0200

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Per Olofsson <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 23 jun 2012, at 07:09, Bill Coderre wrote:
>
>> Please use pkgutil and not xar.
>
> Out of curiosity, and since I've experimented with building mac packages on linux, in what way does the flattened package differ when you compress it with xar and not pkgutil?

There should not be any difference as long as the contents you're
putting in the xar .pkg archive is correctly prepared. e.g. additional
resources need to be cpio dittoed, some metadata files are to be
compressed, some not.
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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>)
 >Re: Packagemaker command line options (From: Bill Coderre <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Packagemaker command line options (From: Per Olofsson <email@hidden>)

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