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Shell script to build fancy DMGs. Version 1.3.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-02.
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overview
Package summary
Shell script to build fancy DMGs
Project links
Commands and aliases
- create-dmg
history
Project history and usage
create-dmg is a macOS command-line packaging helper for producing polished disk images from a source folder. It wraps standard macOS disk-image tooling with options for Finder window layout, icons, background images, Applications drop links, encryption, signing, and notarization.
Project history
The project README credits Andrey Tarantsov as the original creator and says Andrew Janke helped substantially with the project in May 2020. The project is maintained as a shell script in a public GitHub repository under the create-dmg organization.
Adoption history
The README documents Homebrew installation as the first installation path, followed by release downloads and cloning the repository. That distribution style made create-dmg convenient for macOS developers who wanted repeatable DMG creation in release scripts without maintaining their own AppleScript and hdiutil wrappers.
How it is used
The normal workflow is to run create-dmg with an output .dmg name and a source folder, then pass options for volume name, icon placement, background art, filesystem format, encryption, codesigning, notarization, and related macOS packaging details.
Why package nerds care
For package maintainers, create-dmg matters because DMG layout is a macOS distribution detail that is easy to get wrong and awkward to reproduce. The tool packages common release-engineering conventions into one script that Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix can expose as a small CLI dependency.
Timeline
- Original project: Created by Andrey Tarantsov
- 2020-05: README notes substantial help from Andrew Janke
- README: Documents Homebrew installation and release-download installation
Related projects
- The README lists node-appdmg and dmgbuild as alternatives for building macOS disk images.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: yellow
generalized runtime or code generation signal.
Risk classifier
yellow risk · medium confidence · runtime
Why
- generalized runtime or code generation signal
Signals
- text:shell
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
create-dmg | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.3.0
manager updated2026-07-02
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:create-dmg |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.3.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/create-dmg/create-dmg |
| Repository | https://github.com/create-dmg/create-dmg |
| Last updated | 2026-07-02T12:12:51Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation