Re: MacOS App Bundle for pspp

[Jeremy Lavergne]

Since pre-pkg was not necessary incurrently supported OSes, since one would use 
MacPorts to install pspp rather than an installer, I did not commit it.

When building installers, you cannot use the same prefix as MacPorts or they 
will collide (user may have macports or eventually have macports).

Relocation never entered the picture for me. Just as building for multiple OSes 
felt futile as MacPorts could not do so either.


On May 20, 2016 2:09:57 AM EDT, Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>Hi Jeremy,
>
>thanks for the hint. Is it possible to include the pre-pkg phase
>instructions to the pspp port file
>that is on macports? Or is there a specific reason why you have a
>separate port file that
>you use for creating the package? As you mentioned, the rkward port
>file on macports
>includes the pre-pkg phase section.
>
>Would that mean that somebody who builds the dmg from the default
>macports /opt/local 
>installation would produce an install file that would interfere with a
>macports installation?
>
>Is my understanding correct, that the dmg installer will and must
>install everything in 
>/opt/pssp (or any other fixed absolute path that is known at compile
>time)? 
>
>Full relocation which will allow to move the application it to the
>application folder
>or any other folder would need more tweaks and possibly changes to 
>source, e.g. to find the ui files?
>
>Friedrich
>
>> Am 20.05.2016 um 05:23 schrieb Jeremy Lavergne
><address@hidden>:
>> 
>> I made use of the pre-pkg phase to copy the postinstall script into
>the
>> package.
>> 
>> There are other ports that also do this, like rkward and MacPorts
>itself.
>> 
>> 
>> On 05/19/2016 03:25 AM, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
>>> Hi Jeremy,
>>> 
>>> i followed the instructions here
>>> 
>>> 3.4.2. Binary Packages
>>>
><https://guide.macports.org/chunked/using.binaries.html#using.binaries.binary-packages>
>>> 
>>> to build a binary package for pspp on MacOS. I made a separate
>/opt/pspp
>>> macports install for this purpose. I can build the dmg, but I think
>it
>>> misses the files
>>> which are generated in the postinstall steps of the packages. For
>example
>>> the icon caches are not generated. Could you give me a hint how you
>do this?
>>> 
>>> I also looked at inkscape way to do it, but they seem to script
>quite a
>>> lot to produce
>>> an app bundle.
>> 
>> 
>
>
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