site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com I'm using the following call: sudo pax -r -pe -f Archive.pax ./._filename. Install "fileA" into /Applications/Test/ with: - "fileA" having a Data Fork and a Resource Fork That is the bom file looks like this: . ._fileA fileA If I try to do this with PackageMaker, it works fine. -pmb _______________________________________________ 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... At 11:24 PM +0100 2/10/07, Stéphane Sudre wrote: 1. Is there a way to extract the ressource part of a file (the ._filename file) from a pax archive without having it be transformed into a Resource Fork? My fear is that this is Filesystem related and that even logging into >console would not do any good. Dot-underscore files are "magic". Some versions of Mac OS X have kernel support for synthesizing or recombining them. That means that you can't always treat them like ordinary files. 2. Is there some magic incantation to have resource fork being merged back to data fork when you want to do the following thing: - /Application/Test being set as the Default Installation path and Test does not exist yet. If I try to do this with a Script involving /Developer/Tools/SplitForks, it does not work. When analysing the bom, only a difference with the checksum of ._fileA can be seen (this is the reason for question 1). It might be related to the order you're extracting or moving the files. See if you can determine if the ._ file is being handled after the data fork. I believe ditto has code to reorder extraction to ensure the resource fork doesn't come first. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com