Re: How to access resources in flat distribution package

21 Jun 2012

      I found the solution.

In Packages, you can add resources in two different levels.

I don't understand how I could have miss it.

Thanks all for your help

Kevin

On 6/21/12 4:52 PM, Vikram Singh wrote:

Hi Kevin,

CUR_PATH=`dirname "$0"`

Now, you can access your resource by "$CUR_PATH/your_resource"

Hope this will solve your problem :)

Note: This temporary location gets deleted at the end of installation.

Thanks,
Vikram

    Hi Kushneet,
    thanks for the tip.
    Actually, I found this trick after posting to the list.
    I am still wondering if there is another solution because it could
    take some time on big packages.

    Kevin

    On 6/21/12 4:03 PM, Khushneet Inder Singh wrote:

        Hi Kevin,

        What you can do is first expand the FLAT package using pkgutil
        --expand
        FlatPackage ExpandedPackage. After expanding the package you can
        manipulate /access package contents. Once done with
        manipulations and
        changes you can flatten back the expanded package by using pkgutil
        --flatten ExpandedPackage ChangedFlatPackage.

        Regards,
        Khushneet

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        Hi all,
        I am trying to convert my package to flat distribution to be
        able to
        sign it using productsign.
        I am using Packages to build my package.
        I have some resources that I have to access in my postflight
        script.
        In bundle format I used this:

        ROOT_PATH=`sudo dirname "$1"`
        RESOURCES_PATH="$ROOT_PATH/../Resources/"

        This seems to not work with flat packages.
        Does anyone know how to access these resources?

        Thanks in advance.
        Kevin

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You can either place them at the Project level (the place where I was

putting them) or at the Package script level (the place where I should

put them).

Another solution is to keep your resource files with your scripts

while building the package. When you run the installer, all these

files are copied to temporary location and then the

preinstall/postinstall script is run.

Then, whatever resources you are accessing from your script are now in

the same directory as your scripts. So you can access them by getting

the path of the current script as follows-

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Kevin Molcard

<kevin.molcard@arturia.com <mailto:kevin.molcard@arturia.com>> wrote:

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