hey, I'm trying to edit this .mpkg as per the instructions below, in order to get 9A343 onto my G3.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=25942

I'm pretty sure I followed everything up to opening OSInstall.mpkg in order to edit it. Instead I get an error saying 'Open Failed, Couldn't open "OSInstall.mpkg". I've tried using installer, Pacifist and the Terminal, as root. I was about to install Jaguar on another partition to see if it ignored any kind of lock or encryption on the file.

any ideas?

I think on the new Leopard builds that technique is obsolete, the new ones use a xom or something packaging that is different than the mpkg versions of earlier builds.

aaah, I remember that now *rolls eyes* cheers man

The new builds compress the packages into "flat" files using the xar utility. There is a nice little app in the Leopard Developer tools that will allow you to replace the file that you want quite easily...


P.S. Please don't PM me about this as I will not answer your question.

hopefully no need to PM you, thank you very much!

:-)