site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Organization: Microsoft Corporation / Macintosh Business Unit Thread-index: Acabxliplv6Bege5EduX1AAKlWdyEg== Thread-topic: Can I refer to files outside of a .pax archive? User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.4.060510 It looks like the key IFPkgFlagAltSourceLocation is related to this use. Is there a way to use packagemaker(1) or Package Maker to produce .pkgs of this type, or is this a build-your-own? Also, I don't see this key listed in the documentation for Package Maker, nor by Googling with site:developer.apple.com. (Not that mkbom is hard to use, but it suffers from the same problem of wanting to record the items as /Suite Foo/Bar.app and getting everything else in /Suite Foo/) -nh On 6/29/06 2:19 PM, "Peter Bierman" <bierman@apple.com> wrote:

At 7:02 PM -0700 6/28/06, Nathan Herring wrote:

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It seems that the uncompressed option merely generates a very large .pax file in the resulting .pkg file. Is there a way to just have an package refer to bits already unpaxed? The idea here is that on the installation disc, there's a full installation that you can drag-n-drop, but if you really want to, you can run the installer. I'd prefer not to have to duplicate the data (one full set + one compressed set), but rather just have the installer refer to the files already layed out on the CD.

Hi Nathan,

Yes, this is possible. The BaseSystem.pkg on the InstallCD/DVD uses this method.

-pmb

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