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watchedinstall is useful

watchedinstall is useful

January 30, 2010

Very satisfying to use watchedinstall at work the other day to see exactly what a tricksy meta-package was doing during installation. Now that I fixed a stupid bug involving dtrace, watchedinstall works a treat for recording exactly what goes where.

Many thanks to Preston Holmes for releasing watchedinstall in the first place.

My goal is to replace the functionality of the fsevents helper application with a dtrace script that can list filesystem changes. A single python script would be simpler to install and use - you wouldn’t need to install it at all, just run it from the directory you downloaded it to. No effing about with setting PATH environment variables, no worry about compiling a C program for whatever architecture.

Hey Esther!

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