Suspicious Package and Pacifist are great tools, but you can do it with the built-in pkgutil command: % pkgutil --expand foo-1.0.pkg foo_pkg % cd foo_p

Suspicious Package and Pacifist are great tools, but you can do it with the built-in pkgutil command: % pkgutil --expand foo-1.0.pkg foo_pkg % cd foo_pkg % ls -Al total 352 -rw-r--r-- 1 magervalp staff 44491 16 Mar 12:19 Bom -rw-r--r-- 1 magervalp staff 566 9 Apr 13:51 PackageInfo -rw-r--r--@ 1 magervalp staff 67794 16 Mar 12:19 Payload drwxr-xr-x 4 magervalp staff 128 9 Apr 13:51 Scripts % mv Payload Payload.cpio.gz % open Payload.cpio.gz