The need to move between ZIP and PKG formats arises in two distinct technical ecosystems:
Because it doesn’t require docker build , it runs in 200ms instead of 20 seconds.
Linux packaging involves more metadata dependencies. For DEB (Debian/Ubuntu):
zip2pkg -c /path/to/zipfile.zip -o /path/to/output.pkg
mkdir -p myapp_1.0/DEBIAN mkdir -p myapp_1.0/usr/local/bin