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

[Brendan Strejcek]

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

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