MacOS – Finding original files in the Mac OS X installer

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I messed up my Apache config file, httpd.conf.

I followed this article, http://emresaglam.com/blog/1035, to try and find the original httpd.conf inside Install OS X Mountain Lion.app.

The article says that the Bom files ("Bill of Materials"), "describes what is in this pkg file and where they will be written to."

Install OS X Mountain Lion.app -> Contents\SharedSupport\InstallESD.dmg -> Packages\***.pkg -> Bom

However, the Bom files don't seem to be a complete listing. I extracted the contents of the Payload for Essentials.pkg and there was more to it then listed in its Bom.

Is there a better way to navigate and find the file I need from the installer, besides extracting the contents of each pkg file's Payload? Any tips or resources would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Best Answer

When I first commented on your question, I was hindered by not having discovered httpd.conf on my own system. Now I have found it, however, and I can find out what packages owns it as follows:

; pkgutil --file-info /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
volume: /
path: /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

pkgid: com.apple.pkg.BSD
pkg-version: 10.8.0.1.1.1306847324
install-time: 1352382423
uid: 0
gid: 0
mode: 644

Note: com.apple.pkg.BSD is a package name, not a filename. You can find a list of all packages that pkgutil knows about by running

pkgutil --packages

Also note that running the above command on /etc/apache2/httpd.conf does not yield a useful result, because /etc is a symbolic link to /private/etc.

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