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Legacy 3. Downloading (caching) a macOS installer pkg
For obtaining installers for macOS 11 Big Sur or greater, experimental support is included for downloading a macOS Installer pkg. This is taken from Armin Briegel's adaptation of installinstallmacos.py
at scriptingosx/fetch-installer-pkg.
The installer packages are slightly smaller than the installer applications, and do not need to be compressed into a sparseimage. Therefore, you might be able to slightly speed up the workflow using this option.
Use the --pkg
option to download a package. This can be used in conjunction with --list
and --move
.
When used in conjunction with --list
, the available package installers are shown. Using --seedprogram
may give access to beta package installers.
When used in conjunction with --move
, the package is extracted, so that you end up with a standard Install macOS application in /Applications
.
The obtained packages can be used in both --erase
and --reinstall
workflows. If not already done so, the package is extracted prior to startosinstall
running, so you end up with a standard Install macOS application in /Applications
.