port [m]dmg and PackageMaker

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 12, 2016, at 09:14, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> 
> I just tried `port dmg` for the first time in my live, and was greeted by errors about PackageMaker not being found. I still have an old copy but that no longer works.
> 
> Is this feature still being maintained? From what I see one now needs to use a combination of pkgbuild and productbuild(?) (http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/167522/packagemaker-alternative).

The MacPorts release process depends on the "port pkg" and "port dmg" commands:

https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/portmgr/ReleaseProcess

So it worked for us when we released MacPorts 2.3.4.