On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Benjamin Turner wrote: > If you poke around in your /Library/Receipts directory, you will find > that many packages (maybe all, I didn't look that closely) contain some > sort of *.bom file (which seems to be binary).
Good observation. I have one naked .bom file in there and 36 .pkg folders, all of which contain a .bom file. Can't tell what any of them are though, since /usr/bin/strings insists they aren't object files & thus won't read them. They're clearly not ascii either though... *shrug* Just to show a typical example: % find [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Contents [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Contents/Resources [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Contents/Resources/.DS_Store [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Contents/Resources/License.rtf [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Contents/Resources/ReadMe.rtf [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] % ....and [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the only non-ascii one in there. Bill of materials seems like a good guess, as the .info file defines properties of the package, .loc seems to be the basepath (almost all of them just have a forward slash, with a handful saying 'usr/local'), and sizes indicating how many files and how big. It would make sense for .bom to expand a bit on what those files were.... -- Chris Devers "People with machines that think, will in times of crisis, make up stuff and attribute it to me" - "Nikla-nostra-debo"
