Re: working with .dmg files

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

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 04:28:48AM +0000, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> 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.

Oh, I forgot to say - it seemed to cope with the Growl-1.2 dmg file
just fine.

Thanks once again,
Alistair