On 2012-3-30 05:06 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> It came up in a private conversation that we should really be generating >> flat packages in 'port pkg' these days, at least for current platforms. >> Unfortunately, if you set package.flat currently, even though all the >> resources end up in the package (which you can check by extracting it >> with xar), none of them get used. That means no InstallationCheck script >> (and probably no postflight), no Welcome.html, no ReadMe or license, and >> no background image. >> >> Is anyone familiar enough with the packagemaker CLI and/or flat packages >> in general to know how to do this stuff correctly? > > I could dig around and help out. I'm not afraid to read up on packagemaker, > I'm just not experienced with it or flat packages. > > Highlights from what I see so far: > * it has a simple flag for flat packages from a give root using the --root > flag > * the --target options only mentions 10.3 10.4 and 10.5 (no Installer > changes since 10.5?) > > The best information, if we need to redo the packaging code, is their website > (updated 2012-02-16): > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/PackageMakerUserGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html
Forgot to mention, I already read the docs and I'm not much the wiser about what we're doing wrong. :-) - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
