如何为我的二进制文件创建 a.pkg mac 安装程序？

Question

I have a binary file, foo . Built using vercel/pkg .

I would like to bundle this in an installer for mac; A .pkg installer file.

It should install the binary in /usr/local/bin/foo .

Attempt:

$ cd Desktop // <--- foo binary is here
$ pkgbuild --identifier com.foo.pkg --install-location ./usr/local/bin/ --root ./ foo.pkg

This creates a.pkg file: foo.pkg on my desktop. And when i run foo.pkg , it installs the foo binary in /usr/local/bin correctly, except that it also leaves foo.pkg in /usr/local/bin also.

How can make pkgbuild avoid leaving foo.pkg inside /usr/local/bin ?

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UPDATE:

Based on this thread , I think it will work if i set BundleIsRelocatable to false. But I am not able to figure out how that is done.

Answer 1

When you pass --root , it takes everything in that folder and bakes it into the package. You're running pkgbuild in the root that you're building - it seems very likely that you have a copy of foo.pkg on your desktop that was created by an earlier run of pkgbuild . When you run it again, the old foo.pkg is now built into the new package.

Instead, point --root at a directory only containing the files you wish to package.

Otherwise, use --analyze to generate a component list of your root directory. Customize the resulting.plist as necessary (specifying the files you want to include and associated options), then feed it back into pkgbuild with --component-plist .

You should read the man page if you haven't already.