port pkg missing PackageMaker.app

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Fri Dec 7 14:33:16 PST 2012


On 12/07/2012 02:27 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> Having never worked with pkg and mpkg, can this easily be moved over to use pkgbuild instead?  Would this be pretty straight forward for me to code in MacPorts?  Or should I find PackageMaker?  I'm using Xcode 4.5.2.
>
> I can only speak to PackageMaker: it's in the auxiliary tools that are periodically distributed with Xcode (also on connect.apple.com). You can install it wherever, but the default is to drag/drop it to /Applications/PackageMaker
>
> The version of PackageMaker doesn't usually change, however whenever the auxiliary tools are distributed the binaries are linked against new libraries.

OK, thanks.  I found it on Developer.

Just to confirm, since we're still developing on Lion, it looks like I 
need the Lion release, so they are not directly tied to the Xcode version???

Blair



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