I've got a project that relies on the now deprecated PackageMaker tool to create an installer for OS X. I'm working on updating it to use pkgbuild and productbuild. I'm trying to add a custom background to the installer by passing the --resources
flag to productbuild
with the directory containing the background image. I don't get any errors from the productbuild
command, but when I open the package in Pacifist, I don't see my resources included at all. I've tried referencing the background image in distribution.xml
, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I'm at a loss for what to try next to debug this.
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This is what my resource folder looks like:
As cmd parameter I use: --resources /path/Resources
Since I'm not using the PackageMaker GUI and my installer tool creates the Distribution XML file manually from various bits and pieces, I can only say that you have to specify this background.jpg file so that it ends up in the Distribution XML file as:
<background file="background.jpg" alignment="topleft" scaling="none"/>
Ie despite it being in the en.lproj folder the file should not be specified with a path.
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1Aha! I had copied the background element in the file from my old packagemaker distribution that was `resources/background.png`. Changing it to just `background.png` did the trick. I guess the starting path changed in the new tool. Thanks! – Cody Dec 20 '12 at 17:21