Force restart

[Graham R Pugh]

Just in case this helps anyone:

I needed The Luggage to create a package in which a restart needed to be forced.

This feature isn't built into Pkgbuild, but after Googling around I solved it with the help of Greg Neagle's blog post: http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/stupid-tricks-with-pkgbuild/

1. Create a file in the directory of your Makefile named PackageInfo containing the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<pkg-info postinstall-action="restart"/>

2. In your luggage Makefile, the first three lines should be:

USE_PKGBUILD=1

include /usr/local/share/luggage/luggage.make

PB_EXTRA_ARGS+= --info "./PackageInfo"

Another way to do it would be to change your package so that it uses PackageMaker, and override a setting PM_RESTART=None. But I couldn't find documentation on the opposite argument to "None"...

Cheers, Graham