[nzlug] Creating OSX .dmg files in Linux

[Phillip Hutchings]

On 6/29/07, Liam Farr <liam at farr.net.nz> wrote:
> I've never seen someone distribute an OS X program as an iso before, DMGs
> have a nice auto mount on download feature (I don't know if ISOs do this),

ISOs automount if Safari is set to allow auto opening.

> and they can also show a license agreement page before mounting.

PITA because it doesn't belong to any application, so if you manage to
lose the window you have to hide everything to find it again.

> IMHO if you
> can DMGs working it would be preferable as it's what mac users expect as
> standard.

Yes, but I'm not aware of any non-OSX tools that do  it. A darwin
install in a VM would do it of course, but then you have to have the
fun of playing with hdiutil.

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