[fpc-devel] Create installer for MacOSX

Jonas Maebe jonas at zeus.ugent.be
Fri Apr 1 14:13:39 CEST 2005


On 1 apr 2005, at 14:11, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
>>> 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.
>>
>> PackageMaker has a command line interface for building packages too.
>
> Hoe dan? (of bedoel je pax?)
>
>> How can I add files to the packages with these ownership (without 
>> being root myself). With debian/linux I could use fakeroot, but I 
>> didn't see any ports of this tool to darwin / Mac OS X.
>
> Voor zover ik weet gaat dat niet.

Sorry, I thought it was a private mail :) Anyway, my answers are 
respectively:

"How then? (or do you mean pax?)

and

"As far as I know, that is not possible."


Jonas





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