Re: programmatically access pkgutil
Re: programmatically access pkgutil
- Subject: Re: programmatically access pkgutil
- From: hagen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:00:11 +0100
Thanks Julian,
or maybe the question is more if there is an API to access the install
receipts? I would like to know which version of my software is/was
installed on a certain system.
it has changed to /var/db/receipts on 10.6...
Cheers,
Hagen.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Julian Devlin <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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