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Parallels Mac Management Features
The Package page
14 Specify the package name and an optional description, manufacturer, language, and version
information.
15 Select the This package contains source files option and then click the Browse button to
select the source folder.
16 Click Next.
The Program Type page
Select the Standard program option and click Next.
The Standard Program page
1 Specify the program name.
2 Specify the command line for the program using the following rules:
• A command line that doesn't start with the colon (:) is treated as a standard Mac OS X shell
command and is executed as-is. For example, to run the OS X installer(8) to install a .pkg
package, the command line will look like this:
installer -pkg "InstallMe.pkg" -target /
• To copy a directory from the distribution package to the Mac hard drive, use the following
syntax:
:<source_path>:<destination_path>:
where <source_path> is the name and path of a directory inside the package, and
<destination_path> is the name and path of a directory on a Mac. To reference directories
inside an image file, the source path may contain the image file name (the file with the
".dmg" or ".iso" extension). For example, command line
:firefox-8.0.1.dmg/Firefox.app:/Applications:
will mount the firefox-8.0.1.dmg image to a temporary mount point and then copy the
Firefox.app folder from that mount point to the /Applications folder on the Mac. The
following example will do the same with the .iso image file
:MySoft-image.iso/MyApp.app:/Applications:
• To run an installer command (Mac OS X package installer tool), use the following syntax:
:<package_path>::
where <package_path> is the name and path of the package. When the client encounters
this command, it will invoke installer(8) passing the package name to it as a parameter. For
example, command line
:MySoft/MySoft-1.0.dmg/packages/mysoft_v1.pkg::
will mount the MySoft-1.0.dmg image to a temporary mount point, make it current directory,
and execute the following command: