Thanks to all who participated in the Packaging Lab yesterday at MacTech Conference.
Copies of the slides are available here.
Some other (hopefully) helpful links:
The Luggage:
AutoPkg:
MunkiPkg:
A few days ago I made a simple tool for building packages available: munkipkg.
https://github.com/munki/munki-pkg
I got many comments and suggestions for additional features and all sorts of cool additions. Some have even been added to the tool already. But I would like to keep munkipkg a pretty simple, basic tool.
The Luggage (https://github.com/unixorn/luggage) has been around for a while; if munkipkg is too simple for your needs, please have look at that.
I also suggested to several people that if they had more complex needs than munkipkg could handle, it might make more sense to use autopkg, which supports very complex, customizable workflows.
I could tell by the awkward silence that my suggestion was confusing to some — that they had trouble grokking how to use autopkg to build packages “from scratch”, using files and scripts on the local disk.
So I created a GitHub repo demonstrating how to use autopkg in this manner. It’s here: https://github.com/gregneagle/autopkg-packaging-demo
munkipkg comes with three demo package projects. Two of the packages install files, the third is a “payload-free” package that simply runs a script when installed. The autopkg-packaging-demo duplicates these packages, but uses autopkg to build them instead of munkipkg.
(One could also imagine building these packages using either tool: the payload and scripts directories would be the same — in other words, you could have both a build-info.plist for munkipkg and a recipe for autopkg in the same package project directory.)
Assuming you have autopkg installed, you can `git clone` the repo, or download and expand the zip file, and run the autopkg recipes within.
I hope this clears up some confusion, and sparks some new ideas!
https://github.com/munki/munki-pkg
munkipkg is a simple tool for building packages in a consistent, repeatable manner from source files and scripts in a project directory.
Files, scripts, and metadata are stored in a way that is easy to track and manage using a version control system like git.
Another tool that solves a similar problem is Joe Block’s The Luggage (https://github.com/unixorn/luggage). If you are happily using The Luggage, you can probably safely ignore this tool.
Though this tool may eventually be added to the set of tools installed with the Munki command-line tools, it’s not currently tied to Munki and can be run completely standalone.
Learn more here.
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