Re: cfengine Mac packages, universal binaries, and mass deployment

[Chris Kacoroski]

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
>
> --
> Senior System Administrator
> The University of Chicago
> Department of Computer Science
>
> http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/people/brendan
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Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, ckacoroski@nsd.org, 425-489-6263