SUMMARY how to check scripts within a package

From: W.L.Alsemgeest <W.L.Alsemgeest_at_tpgpost.nl>
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 01:58:32 EST
First thanks to:
Jef Eliott, Alan Pae, David Foster, Jeff Putsch, Trucks Jesse, Jon Godfrey,
Bertrand_Hutin, Gerard Henry, Todd Urie, Reginald Beavers, Dik Casper, Eric
van de Meerakker, Walter Heukels and John Riddoch.

Original question:
If a application builder gives me a software package, I want to look into
the pre/post instal/remove scripts. When the package is trasformed into a
transport file (.pkg file) I can not look into the scripts anymore.
Is there a way to look into the scripts of a .pkg file?


To this question I received two differend awnsers.
1)
You can use the pkgtrans command to turn the datastream package
pkgtrans [-s] <package-name>.pkg /tmp
After this there is a regular package (directory structure) left so it is
then posible to go to de scripts and 'view' them.

2)
pkgadd -d file.pkg -s spool to extract in spool
or
pkgadd -s <spool-directory> -d <yourfile.pkg>   [pkginst]
pkginst is optional
Write the package into the directory spool instead of installing it.


Thanks to all the persons that replied to my question.

Greetings,
Wim Alsemgeest



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