Best way to add Dev tools and LANrev to new image?

[mgb123]

Can anyone let me know the best way to add the Devtools and LANrev to an image build? I’ve been trying to use the snapshot method, but I’m not smart enough to figure out how to snapshot the software that I’m trying to take the snapshot with.

[mattzago]

Don’t be hard on yourself. Everyone has to start from somewhere.

For LANrev make a package using your favorite program (Iceberg in my case).

Here is what I bundle:

/Library/Application Support/LANrev Agent
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.poleposition-sw.LANrevAgent.plist
/Library/PreferencePanes/LANrev Agent.prefPane
/Library/Preferences/com.poleposition-sw.lanrev_agent.plist

The plist in the preferences folder should have all the LANrev settings you need (staging server etc). So make sure you have them set before you create the package. If you still need help with creating packages the Peachpit book on Apple Deployment for 10.5 has a pretty good overview of most topics.

[knowmad]

The only part of lanrev I have used so far has been installease, which installs separate from everything else and does the snapshotting for you…
so, install the installease item, then take a snapshot, then install the rest of lanrev (or those parts you want) and take the second snapshot, tell it to build an installed using (I use iceberg but… to each their own).
If that does not work you can always do the target mode trick.
Lanrev can take a snapshot of any disk, not just the startup.
Load a second mac into target mode, snapshot it, dismount, reboot it, install lanrev, reboot into target mode, attach to main machine an re-snapshot, build as mentioned above.
(shaken not stirred)
there are lots of variations on that theme you can use to do this, but hat gives you something to work with i think.

[mattzago]

Installease also has a nice feature to create an iceberg project for you. Just note that if you use installease only to create a package, that if you have to remove a file from that package later you have no packagemaker project or iceberg project to edit. So future proofing things by making sure you have an iceberg project instead of only the .pkg files is a good idea.

[larkost]

The Apple Developer tools go right in with no problem. I did have a little trouble when I was trying to use the “old” style of InstallerChoices file, but with a wide-open version it works fine.

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