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Re: Repair Permissions info needed


On 30 Nov 2005, at 19:02, John Stiles wrote:

To summarize, wouldn't it be great if we could add our app to the "Repair Permissions" check list? It seems like this could solve a lot of problems for us. Unfortunately, I haven't got a clue as to how this could be accomplished. I know it involves the files at / Library/Receipts/, but these don't seem to be in a human-readable format. I'm told that the Apple installer knows how to create receipts, but we already have our own in-house installer technology which gives us much more flexibility than Apple's installer will allow us; switching to Apple's installer wholesale is not an option.

Is anyone knowledgeable about Repair Permissions here? Is there another list which I should ask on?

Thanks for your help :)


As I understand things, the packages that are in /Library/Receipts are just normal packages, but with the archive that normally contains the actual files to install (Archive.pax.gz) removed. What you have left is a .bom file (bom = bill of materials?) which is basically a list of everything the packaged installed, what the permissions are etc. You can inspect a .bom with the lsbom utility, create them with mkbom. I reckon would allow you to create your own receipt.


Fred
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