Re: Is PackageMaker still useful for non-Mac-App-Store
Re: Is PackageMaker still useful for non-Mac-App-Store
- Subject: Re: Is PackageMaker still useful for non-Mac-App-Store
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 09:32:17 +1100
On 4 Feb 2015, at 6:16 am, Jerry Krinock <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I need to produce an installer for a kernel extension (kext), a custom hardware driver, for distribution outside the Mac App Store.
>
> In the past I’ve used the PackageMaker app, from the “Auxiliary Tools for Xcode” download, for this purpose, but that has not been updated since 2012. And the package-maker now built into Xcode seems to be only about the Mac App Store.
>
> Is PackageMaker 3.06 (June 2012) still the thing to use for this purpose?
FWIW, TN2206 (on code signing) says:
"Bundle-style installer packages are a legacy transition aid that is no longer supported. PackageMaker is also no longer supported. It is now necessary to convert to flat-file installer packages using tools like productbuild."
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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