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willy wonka
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posted November 29, 2001 03:37 PM
i'm not sure, but my theory is:
update_prebinding
what i think that does is associate various system things so stuff like files will open in the right applications, but i really don't know.
and optimizing takes different amounts of times for different installs, too. system installs take forever, shtuff i get here doesn't normally take too long.-------------------- -- -willy
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apex
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posted January 03, 2002 12:56 AM
I'm not sure what runs when one of the packages from this site is installed. Most packages from apple will have some interesting files in them;code:
package.pkg/Contents/Resources/preflight
This is a script which runs before the package is installed.code:
package.pkg/Contents/Resources/postflight
This runs after the pax archive is installed.
You can check these out to see what apples packages are doing. There are usually some other scripts in this directory which determine the osx version you are running and lots of other things.You can run any of Apples installers manually like this:
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su
(enter root password)
cd package.pkg/Contents/Resources
cp package*gz /
cp postflight /
cd /
gunzip package*gz
pax -r -f package*pax
chmod 755 postflight
./postflight
This will let you install updates even if you have a beta osx version, are downgrading, etc. [ January 03, 2002: Message edited by: apex ]
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willy wonka
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posted January 03, 2002 07:03 AM
watching 'top' while the installer was optimizing. it sure was doing a lot of update_prebinding.-------------------- -- -willy
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