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Build an installer that can be installed as a brew cask

Open jandubois opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Homebrew casks are just wrappers around regular macOS installers (typically *.dmg or *.pkg), that can install anywhere, and that can require sudo during installation.

We need an installer that can take the tarball created by #22 and install it into /opt/vde.

Let's find out if we can use an installer script with just a tarball instead of a full-blown DMG or PKG installer.

We should probably also create our own tap to host the cask, at least initially.

jandubois avatar Sep 01 '21 05:09 jandubois

Question - I made a MacPorts port out of this fairly easily, and it'd remove needed work to build a .pkg if brew built it from source wouldn't it?

brad-x avatar Oct 12 '21 20:10 brad-x

Question - I made a MacPorts port out of this fairly easily, and it'd remove needed work to build a .pkg if brew built it from source wouldn't it?

Answering my own question, this is only easy if brew has a package for the latest vde-2 commit hash. Ignore me.

Perhaps a brew tap including a vde formula for the current latest commit?

brad-x avatar Oct 12 '21 20:10 brad-x

vde_vmnet is now deprecated

jandubois avatar Sep 12 '22 21:09 jandubois