About
go-macos-pkg was built out of a desire to generate and sign macOS pkgs on non-macOS OSs.
Caveats
- Right now most of the heavy lifting is done by calling the
xarandcpioutilities, as there aren't currently (2021) Go libraries that write xar or pre-SVR4 cpio files. The good news is those utilites are available on other OSs, unlike productsign/productbuild - Right now only payload-free (e.g. just runs
postinstall) packages can be generated as that's all I currently need. It shouldn't be too hard for someone to add payload capabilities, though.
Usage
script := []byte("#!/bin/bash\necho 'hello, world!'\n")
pkg, err := macospkg.GeneratePkg("com.github.korylprince.go-macos-pkg", "1.0.0", script)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalln("could not generate pkg:", err)
}
// use Apple Developer ID Installer cert and key to sign
signed, err := macospkg.SignPkg(pkg, cert, key)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalln("could not sign pkg:", err)
}
if err = os.WriteFile("signed.pkg", signed, 0644); err != nil {
log.Fatalln("could not write signed pkg:", err)
}
