site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com There were a lot of small reasons to go flat. One reason is that a single-fork single-file installer package is that it's much easier to ship and store on non-Mac OS file systems without damage. Another is that it makes applying a digital signature simpler. There were others I'm not recalling at this moment. You can look inside packages by doing pkgutil --expand MyPackage.pkg MyPackage.pkgsrc Pacifist also is pretty happy to show the insides of a flat package. There is also a QuickLook plugin that someone wrote: http://www.quicklookplugins.com/2008/03/02/suspicious-package-updated-to-v11... On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Michael Stauffer (Circular Logic) wrote:
Yes, thanks. I double-checked the min install OS, and it was 10.5 for the meta/main package. I'd only set it to 10.3 for the sub-packages. Thanks!
I wonder why apple changed to a flat package. It use to be helpful sometimes to look in a package bundle when the install wasn't going well.
Cheers
-----Original Message----- From: Iceberg-Dev [mailto:dev.iceberg@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:40 AM To: Michael Stauffer (Circular Logic) Cc: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Error running a pkg on 10.3.9
Hi,
I've created a .pkg with PM 3 on 10.5. I set the pkg's minimum OS version as 10.3. It works fine on 10.5 and 10.6, but when I run on 10.3.9 (PMac G4), I get the error "the bill of materials for this package was not found".
Is the minimum OS version a requirement or the target OS?
The pkg contains two other packages. PM used to make a metapackage, but when I loaded the PM project into PM 3, it now builds only as a .pkg, not .mpkg. Is this part of the problem?
Also, the final output pkg is a file, not a bundle, which is also new to me. The sub packages I built with PM 3 are .pkg files too, but bundles. Is there something I set in one project but not the other that I haven't found?
If you get a file instead of a bundle, this could mean that the target OS has changed and is now 10.5 and you are building a flat package/distribution instead of a bundle package/metapackage.
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