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From: | Jason Edgecombe |
Subject: | [OT] Re: cfengine Mac packages, universal binaries, and mass deployment |
Date: | Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:13:28 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) |
Brendan Strejcek wrote:
The installer does allow you to install packages. I'm actually creating an installer package to make the deployment go smoother. The problem is that there is no command to REMOVE a Mac package, even though the pieces seem to be in place. Mac packages are not as robust as debian or RPM package managers.Chris Kacoroski wrote:The only way was to touch each one by hand as the Mac has no package managementI 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.)
Jason
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