https://github.com/timsutton/brew-pkg

Build OS X installer packages directly from Homebrew formulae
https://github.com/timsutton/brew-pkg

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Build OS X installer packages directly from Homebrew formulae

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/timsutton/brew-pkg
• Owner: timsutton
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-01-08T21:40:46.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-24T18:17:55.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-01T14:37:25.850Z (12 days ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Size: 23.4 KB
• Stars: 196
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 38
• Open Issues: 10
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# brew-pkg

brew-pkg is a Homebrew external command that builds an OS X installer package from a formula. The formula must first already be installed on the system.

## Usage

Assuming nginx is already installed:

`brew pkg nginx`

==> Creating package staging root using Homebrew prefix /usr/local

==> Staging formula nginx

==> Plist found at homebrew.mxcl.nginx, staging for /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist

==> Building package nginx-1.2.6.pkg


It can also automatically include the formula's dependencies:

`brew pkg --with-deps --without-kegs ffmpeg`

==> Creating package staging root using Homebrew prefix /usr/local

==> Staging formula ffmpeg

==> Staging formula pkg-config

==> Staging formula texi2html

==> Staging formula yasm

==> Staging formula x264

==> Staging formula faac

==> Staging formula lame

==> Staging formula xvid

==> Building package ffmpeg-1.1.pkg


By default behaviour brew pkg include all package kegs located in /usr/local/Cellar/packagename. If you need to exclude it, specify option --without-kegs

## Installing it

brew-pkg is available from my [formulae tap](https://github.com/timsutton/homebrew-formulae). Add the tap:

`brew tap timsutton/formulae`

Then install as any other formula:

`brew install brew-pkg`

## Extras

If a formula has defined a launchd plist, brew-pkg will also install this to the package's root in `/Library/LaunchDaemons`.

You can also define a custom identifier prefix in the reverse-domain convention with the `--identifier-prefix` option, ie. `brew pkg --identifier-prefix org.nagios nrpe`. If there is a launchd plist defined, this same prefix is currently _not_ applied to the plist.

You can set the path to custom preinstall and postinstall scripts with the `--scripts` option which is just literally passed through to the `pkgbuild` command.  

For more information refer to `man pkgbuild` which explains that *`--scripts scripts_path` archive the entire contents of scripts-path as the package scripts. If this directory contains scripts named preinstall and/or postinstall, these will be run as the top-level scripts of the package [...]*.

## License

brew-pkg is [MIT-licensed](https://github.com/timsutton/brew-pkg/blob/master/LICENSE.md).