Tag: pkg
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macOS 15.6 (rightly) breaks Nessus’s link to hidden installer .pkg
I hope by the time you read this, Nessus will have fixed its installer, and this will be a non-issue. As of this writing, though, Nessus (Agent 10.9) currently delivers an “installer” that’s just a hard link to a hidden real installer. The visible “installer” (Install Nessus Agent.pkg) is less than 100 KB in size…
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How to deploy a .pkg via Munki if a config file has to be in the same directory
Vendors package software in funny ways sometimes. Every now and then, you might come across a vendor .pkg that comes with some kind of .xml or .cfg or .txt that has to be in the same directory as the .pkg. It’s likely because there’s some postinstall script in the .pkg itself that references that text…
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Anatomy of a no-image workflow
For some background on what a no-image approach to deployment is and its benefits, read Thick imaging, thin imaging, and no imaging macOS and “BUILDING” 2015 MACS. I tried a few approaches to no-imaging never-booted Macs, and I’m presenting here a way that worked for me, but you may very well have success with the…
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Fixing ffmpeg for Munki (allowUntrusted)
Apparently the version of ffmpeg that the Audacity Team wants you to install for Audacity has an invalid or expired signature, which now prevents Munki from installing it. The best solution (workaround) I’ve found is (author of Munki) Greg Neagle’s own: FIXING PACKAGES WITH EXPIRED SIGNATURES