When working with a macOS .pkg installer, you might occasionally need to peek inside and tweak a specific file — maybe to adjust a config, replace a resource, or fix a detail before installation. In this article, we’ll walk through how to safely unpack a…
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If you’ve ever installed a .pkg file on your Mac, you might think the installation is invisible once it’s done. But behind the scenes, macOS keeps a detailed record called a receipt. Think of it as a digital footprint of every package your system installs.
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In this guide we will go through two ways to use the application Packages to create a macOS packages from a pkg or dmg. Package can after its build be used to distribute with your favorite MDM. The Packages application used to create the pkg…
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Sign MacOS *.pkg files This guide will show how to get a certificate that will be used to sign and notarize pkg file. Two get a certificate we need to create a csr (certificate signing request) and that we can do in keychain access. Open Keychain…
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