PkgInfo

File Format
Name	PkgInfo
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Metadata PkgInfo

PkgInfo is a standard file that may appear in an OS X/macOS application bundle "file". It is placed in a subdirectory named "Contents". It has long been deprecated, in favor of features of the Info.plist file (see also Property List).

It is just 8 bytes in size, and contains a type code and creator code applicable to the bundle as a whole.

Disambiguation

Note that there are a lot of other things named "pkginfo".

Sample files

• Google search for '"index of" pkginfo contents'

Links

• The HFS Primer - Has a paragraph about the file
• Anatomy of a Bundle (from archive.org) - Has a note about deprecation