hackupdater

A startup script for OSx86 (Hackintosh) user to install kexts or run scripts on update or upgrade

Installation

1. Download the zip file from here and extract it. You'll find three files there
2. Run the hackupdater_installer, it'll ask for admin password, give it
3. Done.

NOTE 1: Installing kexts requires a reboot to work. It'll reboot automatically (so it'll reboot two times during update procedure—one to update and another to run post update tasks. It's done so that the user don't have to do anything at all).

NOTE 2: Backup of your existing kext(s) can be found here: /Users/Shared/Backups

Usage:

1. Add/remove a kext

   To add a kext,

   sudo hackupdater add kext /path/to/kext.kext

   To remove a kext,

   sudo hackupdater remove kext kext.kext

2. Add/edit/remove a script

   To add a script,

   sudo hackupdater add script /path/to/script

   To edit (or add) a script,

   hackupdater edit script_name

   To remove a script,

   sudo hackupdater remove script script

3. List added kexts/scripts

   To list kexts,

   hackupdater list kext

   To list scripts,

   hackupdater list script

4. To run hackupdater manually (it's actually useless since it already took care of everything, still included)

   sudo hackupdater update

5. For help

   hackupdater help

How it works

hackupdater is created using PHP CLI. It always triggers at startup and checks if the OS is updated. If not, it'll remain silent. Otherwise, it'll install the kexts and run the scripts you added (that means, it can be used to run post update scripts too).

Debug:

• Error log: /Users/Shared/.hackupdater/logs/error.log
• Std output log: /Users/Shared/.hackupdater/logs/out.log