Re: [Gimp-print-devel] macOS maintainer "position"...

[Matt B. <wal...@ma...>]

> On Nov 25, 2020, at 12:24 PM, Michael Sweet <ms...@ms...> wrote:
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> Matt,
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>> On Nov 25, 2020, at 11:53 AM, Matt Broughton <wal...@ma...> wrote:
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>>> On Nov 25, 2020, at 10:01 AM, Michael Sweet <ms...@ms...> wrote:
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>>> Matt,
>>> 
>>> That all looks correct to me...
>>> 
>> 
>> One other question if I may.  Will a .dmg built in macos 10.14.6 work with Big Sure and the new M1 chip?  I remember that .dmg files made in macos 10.15.x wouldn't work in macos 10.14 or earlier.
> 
> If you use hdiutil, you can make a disk image that can be opened all the way back to 10.6 (or should):
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>    hdiutil create -srcfolder /path/to/folder -fs HFS+ gutenprint-N.N.N.dmg 
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> The key is to specify the filesystem type (HFS+), as newer versions of macOS will default to APFS...
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> Anyways, I tested this from my 10.15.x iMac Pro and installed to my Apple Silicon system and it doesn't automatically do the Rosetta dance, so the current package *will not work* on the new M1-based systems...
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> (Will do some investigation to see how I might force Rosetta to be used)
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> ________________________
> Michael Sweet

Thank you.  Yes, we had to add the '-fs HFS+' earlier so xxx.dmg created natively in 10.15.x would open in 10.14.x and earlier.

Matt