Portfile for a DMG that displays license before mounting

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 1, 2019, at 05:22, Andrew Udvare wrote:

> Anyone dealt with this before?
> 
> If you use hdiutil with all the flags that MacPorts does with use_dmg, prior to mounting  hdiutil prompts you to agree to its license. There doesn't appear to be an official way to skip this.
> 
> A utility known as FastDMG bypasses this by echoing Y repeatedly to get past this. I am considering implementing this in the Portfile as difficult as that may be.
> 
> If there is a better way that isn't so hacky I am interested.

Yes, I've done this before. Echoing Y to hdiutil wasn't working for me so I wrote an expect script to do it.

Here is the expect script:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/d8f0e670fe55cb35a5861bc26eba98acb0368ad6/emulators/minivmac/files/attach.exp

You may need to modify the strings "Software License" and "Agree Y/N?" depending on the exact wording of your disk image's license.

Here are the Tcl procedures to mount a disk image using that expect script and to unmount it:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/d8f0e670fe55cb35a5861bc26eba98acb0368ad6/emulators/minivmac/Portfile#L354-L368

(Change "my_system" to "system" though.)

Don't forget to add a dependency on bin:expect:expect for whatever phase you're doing this in (e.g. depends_extract-append).

You want to mount the disk image using these procedures instead of MacPorts base code, so set extract.only to a value that excludes the disk image (i.e. list all the other distfiles; if there are no other distfiles, set extract.only to a blank value), then call the procedures in the post-extract block (or whatever phase you want).


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