[fpc-devel] Create installer for MacOSX

Jonas Maebe jonas at zeus.ugent.be
Tue Mar 15 09:40:02 CET 2005


On 15 mrt 2005, at 05:58, Adriaan van Os wrote:

> PackageMaker is basically a GUI interface to pax, so it might be 
> possible to create a Mac OS X installer package with command line 
> tools. You would have to look at the file layout of a package by using 
> PackageMaker first or by looking at an existing package. I didn't try 
> this, it is just an idea.

Another important remark about making a package: always make sure all 
files you add to a package are owned by root/wheel (or root/admin). You 
don't want a random user on the target system, who happens to have the 
same UID as you do, to be able to overwrite those files.


Jonas





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