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using system tar on macOS to extract .pkg payloads
shodiBoy1 May 4, 2026
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Merge branch 'main' into feature/796-aws-pkg-mac-install
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions CHANGELOG.adoc
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Expand Up @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ This file documents all notable changes to https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy[IDE

Release with new features and bugfixes:

* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/796[#796]: Fix `ide <tool>` install on macOS for `.pkg` Payloads in cpio format (e.g. AWS CLI)
* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1552[#1552]: User-defined MAVEN_ARGS appends and no longer overwrites IDEasy's defaults
* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1833[#1833]: No settings repo update with missing `.commit.id`
* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/1693[#1693]: Fix behavior when there's no settings repo (.../settings/.git)
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13 changes: 11 additions & 2 deletions cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/io/FileAccessImpl.java
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Expand Up @@ -933,15 +933,24 @@ public void extractMsi(Path file, Path targetDir) {
public void extractPkg(Path file, Path targetDir) {

LOG.info("Extracting PKG file {} to {}", file, targetDir);
assert this.context.getSystemInfo().isMac();
Path tmpDirPkg = createTempDir("ide-pkg-");
ProcessContext pc = this.context.newProcess();
// we might also be able to use cpio from commons-compression instead of external xar...
pc.executable("xar").addArgs("-C", tmpDirPkg, "-xf", file).run();
Path contentPath = findFirst(tmpDirPkg, p -> p.getFileName().toString().equals("Payload"), true);
extractTar(contentPath, targetDir, TarCompression.GZ);
extractPkgPayloadWithSystemTar(contentPath, targetDir);
delete(tmpDirPkg);
}

private void extractPkgPayloadWithSystemTar(Path payload, Path targetDir) {

mkdirs(targetDir);
ProcessContext pc = this.context.newProcess();
pc.executable("/usr/bin/tar");
pc.addArgs("-xf", payload, "-C", targetDir);
pc.run();
}

@Override
public void compress(Path dir, OutputStream out, String path) {

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