Re: [Radmind-users] Good morning.

[Jeremy R. <jj...@ri...>]

On 3/26/2009 2:26 PM, "Preston Holmes" <san...@gm...> wrote:

> How about the reverse - weren't some people talking about a tool that could
> make a transcript from a package?
> 
> I've also thought about an experiment where one could make a Fuse file system
> that is acts as a pseudo-read-only ghost of a volume (ie boot volume - but
> could be any mounted volume) that redirects any writes to a folder of your
> choosing (preserving hierarchy).
> 
> So installer would think it is writing to one volume (for any preflight checks
> etc) but any saved files would get saved into a different directory structure
> that might look like:
> 
> /tmp/quicktime/
> /tmp/quicktime/Library/Quicktime/AppleIntermediateCodec.component
> etc
> 
> You could then cd to /tmp/quicktime and use fsdiff and lcreate on this
> directory with relative paths and get a clean loadset of just what the
> installer wrote out - for that matter you could use any number of package
> makers to repackage the results...

What about doing this with a shadow disk image?


-- 
Jeremy Reichman