What Is The Equivalent of "Aptitude" in MAC Osx

What is the equivalent of aptitude in Mac OSX?

There isn't an equivalent out of the box.

You may want to take a look at MacPorts:

MacPorts, formerly called
DarwinPorts, is a package
management system that simplifies the
installation of software on the Mac OS
X and Darwin operating systems. It is
a free/open source software project to
simplify installation of other
free/open source software. Similar in
aim and function to Fink and the BSDs'
ports collections, DarwinPorts was
started in 2002 as part of the
OpenDarwin project, with the
involvement of a number of Apple Inc.
employees including Landon Fuller,
Kevin Van Vechten, and Jordan Hubbard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPorts

http://www.macports.org/

Does the command aptitude upgrade perform a full-upgrade or a safe-upgrade on Debian?

As can be seen in the source-code (but not the docs), upgrade is indeed an alias for safe-upgrade:

else if(!strcasecmp(argv[0], "full-upgrade") ||
  !strcasecmp(argv[0], "dist-upgrade"))
{
   default_action = cmdline_upgrade;
   // [...]
   upgrade_mode = full_upgrade;
   // [...]
   resolver_mode = resolver_mode_full;
}
else if(!strcasecmp(argv[0], "safe-upgrade") ||
  !strcasecmp(argv[0], "upgrade"))
{
   default_action = cmdline_upgrade;
   // [...]
   upgrade_mode = safe_upgrade;
   // [...]
   resolver_mode = resolver_mode_safe;
}

Winlibre - An Aptitude-Synaptic for Windows. Would that be useful?

be sure to research previous efforts on this. Google turns up several similar/relevant efforts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system#Microsoft_Windows

http://windows-get.sourceforge.net

http://pina.plasmite.com

IIRC there was an rpm for windows at some point

Also I think there was some guy (who used to work at MS) in the news recently that basically is starting up a very similar project. I can't find a link to this now.

But anyway, yeah, it would be awesome if there was such a standard tool and repository.

Creating package in mac os x

There are several approaches for Mac installation.

• Simplest: self-contained application (Foo.app). You put everything in a directory (in a particular hierarchy), give the directory the .app extension, and ask the user to copy it into /Applications. All necessary libraries and scripts should be included inside the directory. It is commonly distributed inside a .dmg file, which is a disk image.

• Installer: Uses a .pkg archive, which will be opened by Apple's Installer. It has capability to install libraries in root-restricted areas (after asking the user for the password).

• Homebrew/Fink/MacPorts - open-source projects that provide functionality ranging from that of Debian's Aptitude to that of BSD's Ports. Authors write down recipes that the installer executes, which resolve dependencies and install necessary related packages. I believe Homebrew is now the most popular of these, with recipes being written in a Ruby DSL.

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