Brendan,
I did not make myself clear. By package management I mean a tool that
installs, upgrades, downgrades, tracks the installed packages, allows
reporting on them, and uninstalls them (e.g. like apt on debian or the
windows registry). Mac OSX is totally lacking in that regard. There is
no standards on how to install a package and no database for tracking
packages.
cheers,
ski
Brendan Strejcek wrote:
Chris Kacoroski wrote:
The only way was to touch each one by hand as the Mac has no package
management
I don't think this is completely true, though I admin to not having done
complicated package management on OS X.
For how to install packages at the command line:
man 8 installer
Example use:
installer -verbose -pkg DarwinPorts.mpkg -target /
And here is a page that decribes how to build a package:
http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/PackageMaker_Howto.html
(Sorry for the slightly off-topic message.)
Best,
Brendan
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