[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Rename MacOS X packages

[Matt Elliott]

Ah, A little more digging and a solution.

You need to rename the files inside the .pkg wrapper to match the name of
the wrapper.  So for this last version of OpenAFS I renamed:

OpenAFS.pkg -> OpenAFS 1.2.6.pkg

And then inside the OpenAFS 1.2.6.pkg/Contents/Resources/:

OpenAFS.bom -> OpenAFS 1.2.6.bom
OpenAFS.info -> OpenAFS 1.2.6.info
OpenAFS.pax.gz -> OpenAFS 1.2.6.pax.gz
OpenAFS.post_install -> OpenAFS 1.2.6.post_install
OpenAFS.sizes -> OpenAFS 1.2.6.sizes

Now the installer works again with the new name.

Kind of a pain but at least possible.

Thanks for your help Jonathan.

At 4:37 PM -0400 8/05/02, Jonathan Z. Simon wrote:
>  From www.macfixit.com:
>
>FRI: April 26, 2002
>
>Installer pkg files: name change results in open failure
>
>Dave Paules alerted us to an OS X oddity that we had never noticed
>before: If you rename an Installer pkg file, the file will no longer
>open after you double-click it. The Installer will launch but the
>opening screen of the pkg file does not appear. We are not talking about
>removing the pkg extension. Any name change will cause this to happen.
>Even using the Open command from the Installer's File menu will not
>succeed. Try it. Anyone know what the reason for this is?
>
>Update: A couple of readers have made the plausible assumption that the
>problem is with one of the files inside the package that identifies the
>filename and will thus not work with any other name. While something
>like this must almost certainly be the case, we have been unable to
>determine the exact culprit. It is also surprising, if this explanation
>is correct, that every pkg file has this problem, unless the cause is an
>attribute that Apple says is required.
>
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>Jonathan Z. Simon
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>University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742 USA
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