Re: programmatically access pkgutil
Re: programmatically access pkgutil
- Subject: Re: programmatically access pkgutil
- From: Julian Devlin <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:54:06 -0500
At a basic level, on newer OS's, the info displayed by pkgutil --pkg-info is just certain data from the plist in /var/db/receipts...
It's possible I suppose that pkgutil has special cases that may not be obvious though...
-Julian
On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:28 AM, hagen wrote:
> Thanks Vikram,
> thats what I wanted to avoid though, hence the question here... Seems
> more like a workaround than a solution to me...
>
> But thanks for the suggestion,
> cheers,
> Hagen.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Vikram Singh <email@hidden> wrote:
>> If your program is in Objective-C, use NSTask to execute the command and
>> parse the result which is returned. Otherwise, in C,C++, use popen to
>> execute the command, get the handle to the output and parse it.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:27 PM, hagen <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> is there an API (or something) to access pkgutil from my Application?
>>> I am especially interested in accessing the info provided by pkgutil:
>>>
>>> pkgutil --pkg-info [pkgid]
>>>
>>> Thanks & cheers,
>>> Hagen.
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