Re: zipping like Archive Utility
Re: zipping like Archive Utility
- Subject: Re: zipping like Archive Utility
- From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:51:23 +0200
Le 27 juil. 2010 à 16:43, Matt Gough a écrit :
> I am automating my build process so that my built Installer package gets zipped up before uploading to a web site. Previously I have manually used Finder's Compress option to do this (which goes via Archive Utility)
>
> I tried just using zip, but that gave substantially larger archive sizes.
> I can't do it via 'open -a 'Archive Utility' <ThingToCompress>' as the script it is running from won't have a usable WindowServer at the time.
>
> The closest (in size) that I have got is:
>
> tar -zcf "My Installer.zip" "My Installer.mpkg"
>
> However whilst the resultant file can be expanded via Archive Utility, attempting to get Safari to decompress it after download results in a "Decompression failed" error.
>
> Any ideas?
Have you tried using the proper extension instead of .zip ?
tar -czf "My Installer.tgz" "My Installer.mpkg"
Note that you may get better compression using bzip instead of gzip.
tar -cjf "My Installer.tbz" "My Installer.mpkg"
-- Jean-Daniel
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