Introduction

makereserializationpkg is a tool Mac admins can use to create deployment packages that reserialize Adobe CS6 product installs.

makereserializationpkg is written in Python and is made available under the Apache 2.0 license.

Usage

makereserializationpkg is a Python script. If you mark it as executable, you can invoke it directly; otherwise use the Python interpreter:

python makereserializationpkg [options] package_pathname

makereserializationpkg --leid <PRODUCT_ID> \
                       --serial <SERIALNUMBER> \
                      [--identifier com.example.reserializer] \
                      [--version 1.0] \
                      package_pathname

makereserializationpkg creates a package that will reserialize the Adobe product specified by <PRODUCT_ID> with <SERIALNUMBER>. Created package is saved to package_pathname.

Product IDs can be found on Adobe's web site here.

Options

-h, --help            Show help message.

--leid=LEID           Adobe product ID. 
                      See http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/enterprisedeployment/licensing-identifiers.html
                      for a list of product IDs.

--serial=SERIAL       Serial number to use.

--identifier=IDENTIFIER, --id=IDENTIFIER
                      Optional. Package identifier for the package. Defaults
                      to "com.example.reserializer.pkg"

--version=VERSION     Optional. Version number for the generated package.
                      Defaults to "1.0".

Requirements

makereserializationpkg requires an Internet connection to download the Adobe APTEE tools.

It also uses /usr/bin/pkgbuild to build the final package. This available by default on Lion and Mountain Lion. On Snow Leopard you can obtain it by installing Xcode 3.2.6 or later.

What it does

makereserializationpkg downloads the Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition (APTEE) tools from Adobe. See here and here for more info on these tools.

It uses these tools and the provided options to build a "payload-free" package; that is, a package that installs no files but exists only to run a script.

The script is this:

#!/bin/sh

LEID=<provided LEID>
SERIAL=<provided serial number>

SCRIPTDIR=`/usr/bin/dirname $0`

"${SCRIPTDIR}/adobe_prtk" --tool=UnSerialize --leid="${LEID}"
"${SCRIPTDIR}/adobe_prtk" --tool=Serialize --leid="${LEID}" --serial="${SERIAL}" --regsuppress=ss --eulasuppress

The created package is saved to the pathname given at the command line.

This package should be installed only on the current startup disk.