munkiimport iPad/iOS apps

[Gregory Neagle]

This hasn’t come up for us until very recently — we had a request to deploy an iPad/iOS app on Macs with Apple silicon. I downloaded the app from the App Store, and attempted a munkiimport:

$ munkiimport /Applications/Q-SYS\ UCI.app

Making disk image containing Q-SYS UCI.app...

/Applications/Q-SYS UCI.app: Authentication error

created: /tmp/munki-jo1fwsjj/Q-SYS UCI.dmg

Disk image created at: /tmp/munki-jo1fwsjj/Q-SYS UCI.dmg

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/munki/munkiimport", line 608, in <module>

    main()

  File "/usr/local/munki/munkiimport", line 379, in main

    pkginfo = pkginfolib.makepkginfo(installer_item, options)

              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/usr/local/munki/munkilib/admin/pkginfolib.py", line 430, in makepkginfo

    pkginfo = get_catalog_info_from_dmg(installeritem, options)

              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/usr/local/munki/munkilib/admin/pkginfolib.py", line 233, in get_catalog_info_from_dmg

    iteminfo = getiteminfo(itempath)

               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/usr/local/munki/munkilib/admin/pkginfolib.py", line 338, in getiteminfo

    if key in plist:

       ^^^^^^^^^^^^

TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable

The structure of an iPad/iOS app bundle installed on macOS is very different from a macOS app, and munkiimport does not know how to deal with it. You could manually construct a pkginfo that copies the app bundle to /Applications and that uses /Applications/Foo.app/Wrapper/Foo.app/Info.plist to determine the version.

It’s not clear to me how common the need is to deploy iPad/iOS apps on Apple silicon via Munki is and whether it might be worth it to extend makepkginfo and munkiimport to deal “properly” with them. Any thoughts?

-Greg

[Ben Toms]

I’m pretty sure these are MDM-deployable to macOS too.. so likely the same reasons to deploy to macOS via Munki as folks do with VPP apps… but more niche.

Regards,

Ben

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[gregn...@mac.com]

I'm sure _some_ MDMs support this. I could not work out how to do it with the MDM we have (Workspace ONE). But as you mention, it's possible to use Munki to deploy macOS App Store apps (at least some of them, like Keynote, Pages, Numbers, iMovie...), and we do this.

[Ben Toms]

Ah, indeed this is possible with some MDM’s: https://grahamrpugh.com/2021/08/24/jamf-ios-apps-on-macos.html

Regards,

Ben. 

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