site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Hello bert, Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 3:56:49 PM, you wrote:
OK... I figured out that I should be using CpMac from /Developer/Tools to copy app bundles. I found this out while reading about cp at
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Arti...
This is only really necessary if some of your files rely on the resources fork. Basically, files on a HFS+ file system have two parts, the data fork and the resource fork. The data fork is the normal file data as you would expect - but extra data can be stored in the resource fork. Traditionally MacOS stored important stuff here, but more recently, the resource fork is not used much.
coming from Win XP and Linux, I have a really hard time understanding how copying an application can break it so badly that it starts to crash ... can anyone shed some light on this?
If you want to zip from the console, make sure you use the -y option to preserve symlinks - otherwise zip will follow them and create havoc. -- Best regards, Peter mailto:darkmatter@blueyonder.co.uk _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com