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Instructions for publishing an update unclear.

Asked by George Nachman

The instructions here:
http://wiki.github.com/andymatuschak/Sparkle/publishing-an-update

are vague. They say:

1) Put a copy of your .app (with the same name as the version it’s replacing) in a .zip, .dmg, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2.
2) Create an Installer .pkg with the same name as your app and put that .pkg in one of the archive formats above.

Following this, I have:
foo.app
foo.zip <- result of step 1
foo.pkg <- installs foo.app. or should it do something with foo.zip?
foo.pkg.zip <- result of step 2, putting the .pkg in a zip file. foo.zip not in here, because it's not referenced.

A few steps later I am supposed to sign my update. I guess I'm signing foo.pkg.zip? But then why did I create foo.zip? And my foo.pkg came out to be one fourth the size of foo.zip, so there's no way it contains foo.app.

I'm obviously not understanding something. Can you help clarify this for me?

Thanks,
George

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Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak) said : 		#1

Sorry for the confusion. There's an "either" there. If you need to distribute via a pkg (which is not preferred), use the second bullet, put the zipped .pkg in your appcast, and sign the .zip.

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Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak) said : 		#2

(meaning, sign the .pkg.zip, to be clear)

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