Re: working with .dmg files

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 08:55:55PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> >I need to alter the content of a .dmg file. As I understand, these are
> >not archives, but filesystems image.
> >
> >Do we have any way of manipulating .dmg files? Thrgough FUSE, perhaps?
> 
> There's a set of tools located here:
> 
>   http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/
> 
> ...which might be useful.  Normally, source code and portable Java  
> code from the MacOS X world are kept in .zip/.jar or .tgz/.tbz  
> archives; .dmg archives tend to contain Cocoa software which assumes  
> you have a Mac system handy.

I added dmg2img as pkgsrc/sysutils/dmg2img - thanks for the pointer.

Best,
Alistair