feature request munkiimport

[Nico Bos]

Hello Gregory (or any other developer),

When running munkiimport I would like to be able to include parameters for Category and Developer, resulting in that information is automatically added to the pkgsinfo file by munkiimport.

Would that be possible?

For instance: munkiimport --no-interactive --extract_icon --developer 'Mozilla' --category 'Internet' <<path to Firefox dmg>>

All the best,

Nico

[Gregory Neagle]

1) Those options already exist. Look at “munkiimport —help”. 

2) It looks like you might be trying to do some automation of Munki imports. Might I suggest a look at Autopkg? https://github.com/autopkg/autopkg

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[Nico Bos]

Thank you for your reply,Gregory. Sorry I overlooked munkiimport –help.

I am indeed looking into Autopkg, but I am not sure if it is future proof. At least most of the public available recipes are very old. That makes me wonder if autopkg itself is also outdated.

 

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[Nick McSpadden]

The recipes are old because they haven't needed to change, as they still work. The ecosystem is alive and well, and there are many users of it. The code itself doesn't change much anymore, but it works fine, and the design is well suited for future proofing because of its flexibility.

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[Greg Neagle]

I’ll also note that there are recipes updates nearly daily (perhaps weekends excepted) within the recipe repos at https://github.com/autopkg Recipes that work don’t need to be updated, but sometimes vendors will change URLs or package formats or behaviors that break recipes, requiring them to be updated.

You can either reinvent all that affect and work yourself by writing your own software import automation scripts, or allow other Mac admins to help you (via the Autopkg recipes they’ve shared).

On Jan 27, 2025, at 8:08 AM, Nick McSpadden <nmcsp...@gmail.com> wrote:

The recipes are old because they haven't needed to change, as they still work. The ecosystem is alive and well, and there are many users of it. The code itself doesn't change much anymore, but it works fine, and the design is well suited for future proofing because of its flexibility.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM Nico Bos <nico...@amac.nl> wrote:

Thank you for your reply,Gregory. Sorry I overlooked munkiimport –help.

I am indeed looking into Autopkg, but I am not sure if it is future proof. At least most of the public available recipes are very old. That makes me wonder if autopkg itself is also outdated.

 

Met vriendelijke groet, Nico Bos

 

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[Alan]

Deprecated recipes can also be marked as deprecated, and they often are. But, as Nick said, the whole point of the recipe is that it shouldn't change, because you're often doing the same thing over and over again. Usually, recipes change only if the vendor suddenly decides to issue the software in a different way.

But if you're creating your own workflow, you can create and maintain your own recipe, which you know won't be unmaintained, because you're the one maintaining it. Chances are, for popular software, there's an existing recipe, though.

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[Nico Bos]

That’s great to hear! Thanks for your help, I will start with a deep dive into Recipe Robot.

 

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