Creating a custom package to deploy

[Jesse Murphy]

There's got to be a way to do this:

I have a 7MB shell script that deploys a McAfee agent on our Macs. I want to deploy via Simian, now that I have my server running correctly.

The shell script needs an argument to install (./install.sh -i).

I've been working on creating a .pkg file using pkgbuild that copies the install.sh into /Library/Scripts/McAfee/, then uses a preinstall script to check for existing installation, then a postinstall script to execute the ./install.sh -i.

Seeing how Simian uses DMG and pkginfo plists, my .pkg doesn't look like it will work.

Has anyone here done anything similar, or know how I could create a DMG and plist that would work with what I've already done?

[Jesse Murphy]

Got this figured out, and in case anyone else comes along looking for similar info...

I used this method to make sure our McAfee ePO agents are getting deployed:

• Use pkgbuild to create a pkg
• preinstall script checks for the /etc/cma.d/EPOAGENT3700MACX/config.xml (probably unnecessary, as the pkginfo does this again later)
• have the pkg deploy the install.sh script to /Library/Scripts/McAfee
• postinstall script just calls the deployed /Library/Scripts/McAfee/install.sh -i 
• Wrap the pkg in a DMG
• Use makepkginfo on the DMG to generate the pkginfo plist
• Modify the XML to include the <key>preinstall_script</key>, with the script set to check for the same config.xml as above, so Simian doesn't keep trying to deploy the package every time
• Upload to Simian