Quick help wanted

[Gregory Neagle]

Please see https://github.com/munki/munki/pull/1238

It would be very helpful if people could check their Munki repos and see if they have any packages with a Distribution file named anything other than exactly “Distribution”. One way to do that would be to cd into your repo’s pkg directory and run this:

find . -name "*.pkg" -type f -exec xar -tf {} \; | grep Distribution

If anything other than “Distribution” is printed on any line, I’d love to know what that is.

-Greg

[Vaughn Miller]

Ran this test against my repo, and did not find any instance of a Distribution file named anything other than Distribution.

Vaughn

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[John Altonen]

got a couple of these:

.svn/prop-base/Distribution.svn-base

[Gregory Neagle]

Those are almost certainly ignorable: I’d expect that the package also has a file named “Distribution” at the top-level of the expanded package.

-Greg

[Daniel Moore]

Same.

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[Patrick Gallagher]

Got one non-"Distribution" hit:

Error opening xar archive: ./munki_repo/pkgs/apps/ciscojabber/CiscoJabberMac-12.9.6.305455.pkg

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[Elliot Jordan]

No results other than "Distribution" here.

Elliot

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[hfi...@gmail.com]

None here.

[David Vandenborn]

Only pure Distribution files in our repo.

David

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[Rick Davis]

Not sure if this is an indication that I need to cleanup my repo. Or if this is what you are looking for. I have 49 lines that begin with: "Error opening xar archive:" 

Rick

On Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 1:18:08 PM UTC-4 Gregory Neagle wrote:

[pa...@palindrome.com]

Just Distribution on several repos.

[Antony Nelson]

As you are grep'ing for Distribution surely the only line you would get would be ones containing the string Distribution?  (it's likely I don't fully understand)

The only other lines I got std error along the lines of

Error opening xar archive: ./subdirectory/._packagename.pkg

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[Alan]

I'm getting only Distribution back.

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[Gregory Neagle]

To better understand, please read the issue I posted with my original request:

https://github.com/munki/munki/pull/1238

Those of you seeing "Error opening xar archive” — this is likely nothing to worry about and is not relevant to the issue I’m looking at. The most likely cause is you have stored packages on a non-HFS+ and non-APFS filesystem, and some of the packages have extended attributes that are being stored in “._foo.pkg” files.

-Greg

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[hild...@columbusacademy.org]

I also got a couple of -

.svn/prop-base/Distribution.svn-base

.svn/text-base/Distribution.svn-base

The rest came back as Distribution