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Modify the list of packages on the DVD?
Authored by: Hes Nikke on Dec 29, '03 02:23:04AM

ok, after doing some more poking around, it looks like it is the same plist as the one mentioned in the hint - they changed the meta package structure a bit since puma (i'm not surprised, they needed to support multi disk installs)

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Modify the list of packages on the DVD?
Authored by: Hes Nikke on Dec 29, '03 04:06:51AM

ok, there are 2 more plist files i edited for completeness.

/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg/Contents/Info.plist
/System/Installation/Packages/OSLocInfoCache/English.plist (for completeness you should edit them all, but i'm lazy :P )

i also edited the copied /System/Installation/Packages/Developer.mpkg/Contents/Info.plist

as far as the edits go... in OSInstallCache.plist i copied the edited dict from Developer.mpkg into OSInstallCache, and then copied each dict from the indicidual packages (it was a female dog!) next i added one more key to the 2nd level dict in OSInstall.plist that said Developer.mpkg - i put it just above X11. as far as the english.plist goes, i've been lazy and havn't even done much updating to that... we'll see what happens when i burn the disk, i doubt it's needed.

i have not yet burned this disk to test it because i have yet to download the necessary updates to make my DVD as up to date as possible. what i have done is i've fired up OSInstall.mpkg to make sure that all the new things are listed.

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Modify the list of packages on the DVD?
Authored by: timkingman on Dec 29, '03 03:44:44PM
To complete some things the above poster didn't explicitly state, be sure to update OSInstallCache.plist and Developer.mpkg/Contents/Info.plist to change:

<key>IFPkgFlagComponentDirectory</key>
<string>../Packages</string>
to:

<key>IFPkgFlagComponentDirectory</key>
<string>..</string>

Also, the CHUD Tools package seems to check for an OS on the target volume and therefore won't install with a fresh OS. To "fix" this, just remove or rename CHUD.pkg/Contents/Resources/VolumeCheck.

I'm also interested in adding updates to this image, I'll try to post any further steps or infomation as I come across it. Time to order some DVD-RWs (and maybe even a faster SuperDrive...)

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Modify the list of packages on the DVD?
Authored by: Hes Nikke on Dec 29, '03 05:58:57PM

i added the 10.3.2 update, XCode 1.1 update and iTunes 4.2 to my disk. there are a few other version checkers i had to remove, in order for it to want to install. iTunes 4.2 is still giving me problems because even though it's an mpkg it's formatted completely different from the way any of the other mpkg's are formatted. course this was 3 AM by the time i got hung up on iTunes so i STILL haven't burned a disk to try it out.

i'll let you know when i get iTunes working.

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Modify the list of packages on the DVD?
Authored by: knowmad on Dec 31, '03 02:49:05PM

Ok, it sounds like your doing an awful lot of work and that it is SERIUSLY useful work. any chance you can, when your done (or at a stable point) write it all up in one hint/forum post/email and tell us which files you edited ho to include what and make it all work?
for that matter seing as how the files you are editing are small, any chance you can post the editted files somewhere with an explination of what was done? (am willing to host such an item).
thanks
knowmad

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