Roughly a week after the first widespread panic with the XProtect mechanism disabling Java on OS X, the same thing happened with the Flash plugin, with Apple issuing a definition update blocking all old versions about 3 hours after the latest Flash was available. (At least this time a newer version was available.) It’s clear [...]
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Rolling OS X packages with FPM and Homebrew
Two cool open-source package managers, FPM and Homebrew, recently got some new OS X Installer Package capabilities. fpm -t osxpkg Jordan Sissel’s FPM packaging tool was designed for systems administrators to very easily roll packages for RedHat, Debian and other platforms and abstract away the obscure details of the package formats themselves. FPM is written [...]
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Flat packages: persisting obsolescence
Packaging is somewhat of a black art on OS X. The Flat Package format has been in existence since 10.5, but only recently are more 3rd-party packaging tools like JAMF Composer starting to move to this format by default. PackageMaker’s days as a hidden download in the Apple Developer Center Auxiliary Downloads package are numbered. [...]
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