Firefox + AutoConfig recipes

[Gregory Neagle]

I've made something new I'd like some feedback on:

https://gist.github.com/gregneagle/0f04cad487ec03293037

These are some recipes for packaging and deploying Firefox + autoconfig files as generated by the CCK2 extension.

You can read about the CCK2 extension here: http://mike.kaply.com/cck2/

CCK2 can output two different things: 1) a Firefox extension, and 2) a set of autoconfig files. These recipes use the autoconfig output, which comes in the form of a .zip file.

FirefoxAutoconfg.pkg.recipe downloads Firefox and build an Installer pkg containing the Firefox app + the autoconfig files.

FirefoxAutoconfig.munki.recipe is a child of the pkg recipe and imports the pkg into a Munki repo.

Read the descriptions of the recipes to get an idea of the options. The recipes have been tested with the latest RC and ESR Firefox releases, and with the output of the current CCK2 Wizard (2.0.18).

Feedback eagerly awaited.

-Greg

[Vaughn Miller]

I took this for a spin this morning and I like it!  It wasn't obvious to me if the autoconfig.zip file should reside in the directory of the parent recipe or my override (easy to sort that with a little trial and error).  Other than that everything was straightforward.

Vaughn Miller

Desktop Engineer

Lafayette College

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[Gregory Neagle]

These recipes are now available in the gregneagle-recipes repo.

autopkg add-repo gregneagle-recipes

-Greg

[Chase Thompson-Baugh]

I think you mean:

autopkg repo-add gregneagle-recipes

[Gregory Neagle]

Yes. (It was a test to see if you were worthy. You passed.)

[Chase Thompson-Baugh]

I feel so honored. I just tested your recipe and it worked great. Nice work! Now everyone will use Omnibar. (maniacal laugh)

It's important to note that if you use a recipe override for this (I always do) then the autoconfig.zip file must be in the ~/Library/AutoPkg/RecipeOverrides/ directory.

[Gregory Neagle]

It might not be completely clear to people that recipe overrides are themselves recipes.

And so, yes, if you create a recipe override, which is a child recipe, which is a recipe, then the autoconfig.zip needs to be in the same directory as the actual recipe you are running and not in the directory of some parent of that recipe.

-Greg

On Jan 30, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Chase Thompson-Baugh <chas...@gmail.com> wrote:

I feel so honored. I just tested your recipe and it worked great. Nice work! Now everyone will use Omnibar. (maniacal laugh)

It's important to note that if you use a recipe override for this (I always do) then the autoconfig.zip file must be in the ~/Library/AutoPkg/RecipeOverrides/ directory.