Where to include port version in 'port pkg' output?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Jan 3 12:06:58 PST 2013


On 2013-1-4 06:09 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> The disadvantage is that you get a package that is not a single file. Single files can be downloaded easily from web servers, while older bundle-style packages are actually directories which have to be zipped or put on a disk image to be distribute that way.

Not having to use an enclosing dmg is nice, but the main advantage of
flat packages for us is that they can be signed.

> Flat single-file packages did not exist until Snow Leopard IIRC; MacPorts will default to using flat packages on Snow Leopard and newer, and bundle packages on Leopard and older.

They were actually introduced in Leopard, but the tools are slightly
lacking there.

- Josh


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