This tool will quickly and easily build a package from an installed application, a disk image file or zip archive with an enclosed application bundle. It will also extract the application name and version and use it to name the resulting pkg file.

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The tool will look for applications on the first level of the disk image or archive. If it finds no or more than one application it will error.

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The name of the resulting package will be of the form {name}-{version}.pkg. Spaces will be removed from the name. The package will be written to the current working directory.

Examples

Build package from installed application:

Build package from a disk image:

Build package from a zip archive:

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Options

--scripts scripts_folder:

Pass a folder with scripts that are passed to pkgbuild's --scripts option. If the there is a preinstall and/or postinstall script they will be run at the respective and can call other scripts in this folder.

--postinstall postinstall_script

Use the script file given as a postinstall script. If given together with the -scripts option will attempt to merge the two and error if a postinstall script is already present.

--preinstall preinstall_script

Use the script file given as a preinstall script. If given together with the -scripts option will attempt to merge the two and error if a preinstall script is already present.

--ownership {recommended,preserve,preserve-other}

This parameter will be passed into pkgbuild. Default is recommended. See man pkgbuild for details.

--output pkgpath

Will write the resulting package to pkgpath instead of the current working directory. If pkgpath is a directory, then the default package name ({name}-{version}.pkg) is used. You can also give the complete path, including a name. You can use the placeholders {name}, {version} and {identifier} in the name.

Examples:

Will create Numbers-X.Y.Z.pkg in ~/Packages.

will create Numbers_latest.pkg in the current working directory.

will create com.apple.Numbers_X.Y.Z.pkg in ~/Packages.

--[no-]relocatable

Controls wether the resulting pkg file is relocatable, i.e. if the installer process will search for the bundle by bundle-identifier if it was moved to another location. By default packages will be created NON-relocatable.

--sign, --keychain and --cert

You can add these options to sign the resulting package. These three options are passed through to the pkgbuild command. Read the pkgbuild man page for details.

Usually you can find the proper signing identity (from the Apple Developer account) with the command

and then you add the proper identity with the --sign option.

Background

OS X has had the pkgbuild tool since Xcode 3.2 on Snow Leopard. With pkgbuild you can directly build a installer package from an application in the /Applications folder:

Or even an application inside a mounted dmg:

This tool even does the work of determining a bundle's identifier and version and sets the identifier and version of the pkg to the same values.

However, while pkgbuild does automatically name the package, it does not include the version, which is important when you tracking many versions of the same application. It also doesn't automatically look into a dmg file or zip archive.

quickpkg vs autopkg

This tool is not meant to replace autopkg. autopkg will automate the download, the re-packaging (if necessary) and the upload to and configuration of your client management system. It can also handle much more complex setups than quickpkg. autopkg is far superior and should be your tool of choice.

However, there are situations where autopkg does not work well. The most common reason is if the download cannot be automated because the download page is behind a paywall. Or maybe you are just experimenting with a test server and do not want to change your production autopkg setup. Also autopkg requires a recipe for a given piece of software. If no recipe exists, quickpkg may be a simple alternative. (Though if quickpkg works, creating an autopkg recipe should not be hard.)

quickpkg vs munkipkg

quickpkg is meant for 'quick' packaging. No configuration, no options. Download the application from the AppStore or the dmg or zip from the web and go. (I started working on it because I could never remember the exact options needed for pkgbuild.) munkipkg is a tool that makes it easier to access the complex options of pkgbuild and packagebuild, but it still supports complex projects.

If you prefer a UI rather than a command line tool, then use Stéphane Sudre's Packages.

Warning

All quickpkg does is identify an application bundle and package it in a way that the package will install that application bundle into the /Applications folder. If the application needs other files (libraries, frameworks, configuration files, license files, preferences etc.) to run and work they are your responsibility.

Also be sure to understand what you are running quickpkg against. If you run quickpkg on the disk image you get from DropBox or for the Adobe Flash Player, you will get a pkg that installs the DropBox or Flash Player installer in the /Applications folder. Probably not what you wanted.

xar (short for eXtensible ARchive) is an open source file archiver and the archiver¡¯s file format. It was created within the OpenDarwin project and is used in Mac OS X 10.5 for software installation routines, as well as browser extensions in Safari 5.0. Xar replaced the use of gzipped pax files.

pkg is just .xar archives with a different extension and a specified file hierarchy. pkg is an OS X Installer file. This file format is used by Apple Inc. on its Macintosh line of computers and on the iPhone. It is also used by Sony PlayStation 3 on downloadable content over PlayStation Network. The contents of a PKG file can be installed using the Apple Installer application.

The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. Important design decisions include an easily extensible XML table of contents for random access to archived files, storing the toc at the beginning of the archive to allow for efficient handling of streamed archives, the ability to handle files of arbitrarily large sizes, the ability to choose independent encodings for individual files in the archive, the ability to store checksums for individual files in both compressed and uncompressed form, and the ability to query the table of content's rich meta-data.

The XAR file format has three main regions, The Header, The Table of Contents, and The Heap. The header is a small binary data structure that identifies the file format (file magic). The table of contents is parsed as an XML document. The heap occupies the remainder of the file. Files' data are stored in the heap.

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Files in xar are individually compressed. This allows for quick extraction of individual files without the extra disk space requirements and CPU usage of extracting the entire archive, as compared to a compressed tar archive. This makes xar useful for quick restores of accidentally deleted or overwritten files, from a backup archive. Additionally, this means xar can use different compression methods for each file in the archive. For instance, it might not be a good idea to try to try to compress an already compressed file, but a large file might benefit greatly from using bzip2, whereas a small text file would be better served to use gzip.

Open/Extract xar/pkg File on Windows

Easy 7-Zip opens/extracts xar/pkg file easily on Windows. The Easy 7-Zip was developed based on 7-Zip. 7-Zip is a famous open source file archiver. The Easy 7-Zip is an easy-to-use version of 7-Zip. The open source freeware keeps all features of 7-Zip and adds a few useful features that makes the software more user-friendly.

Easy 7-Zip works on Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/2008/2003/XP/2000 (both 32-bit and 64-bit compatible).

1. Free Download Easy 7-Zip
2. Install Easy 7-Zip by step-by-step instructions
3. The installation will associate xar/pkg with Easy 7-Zip automatically
4. Double-click on xar/pkg file to open xar/pkg file with Easy 7-Zip

You will see files or folders within the xar/pkg file then, click button Extract to extract the xar/pkg file.

5. Alternatively, Right-click on xar/pkg file on Windows Explorer

And then, choose Extract files.., Extract Here, or Extract to 'folder' to extract the xar/pkg file.

6. Done

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Open/Extract xar/pkg File on Mac

You can open pkg file directly on Mac. If you want to extract xar/pkg you need to install extra software. B1 Free Archiver opens/extracts xar/pkg file on Mac. B1 Free Archiver is a free software for creating archive folder and extracting archive file. B1 Archiver works on all platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. The freeware supports most popular formats including xar/pkg.

B1 Free Archiver is compatible with:

• Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
• Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
• Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
• Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Open/Extract xar/pkg File on Linux

You need to install xar on Linux.

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If an error 'configure: error: Cannot configure without xml2-config' occurs when running configure, please install libxml2-dev. On Debian, type:

List folders and files in xar/pkg:

Open/Extract xar/pkg file with xar on Linux:

xar command options:

• -t: Lists an archive
• -x: Extracts an archive
• -v: Print filenames as they are archived
• -f: Specifies an archive to operate on

Alternatively, you can use p7zip to extract xar/pkg file. p7zip is the Unix command-line port of 7-Zip.

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