[openbeos] Re: Do we want to recreate SoftwareValet/PackageBuilder?
- From: "Ryan Leavengood" <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:28:23 -0400
On 5/9/06, Shaka <shaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Also, I think a Software Valet compatible installer would be preferred
to re-creation, and should be relatively easy as a .PKG is for the most
part a zipped folder with a shell script for installing (If I remember
correctly...)
Unfortunately it isn't that simple. I've done some research and while
the embedded files are compressed with zlib streams, the pkg file
itself uses a custom catalog format, which I'm reverse engineering as
we speak.
Ryan
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Also, I think a Software Valet compatible installer would be preferred to re-creation, and should be relatively easy as a .PKG is for the most part a zipped folder with a shell script for installing (If I remember correctly...)
Unfortunately it isn't that simple. I've done some research and while the embedded files are compressed with zlib streams, the pkg file itself uses a custom catalog format, which I'm reverse engineering as we speak.