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Re: can't find .info file


On Feb 18, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote:

On Feb 18, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: 
On Feb 18, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote:

Installer 2.1.9 on 10.4.11.

When I try to open my installer package, Installer refuses, and the console log contains the entry:

2008-02-18 15:43:38.198 Installer[2540] IFPkg::_parseOldStyleForLanguage - can't find .info file (ApplicationName)

(where ApplicationName is the name of the application installed, and the name of the package)

What is this error, and how can I correct it?

UPDATE: Trying again later, I found I could open and run my package. I'm still worried that if the error can go away by itself, it can come back by itself. Could someone please advise me whether I should be worried?

.info files are used in the "Mac OS X 10.0" package format.

Huh. Well, the .info file is there now. Anyone have any thoughts on what would make it disappear for one build? (Or Installer.app miss it for a run or two?)

Here's the invocation line:

PackageMaker -build -p ApplicationNameTest/ApplicationName.pkg -f ./ root -b /tmp -s -ds \
-r resources -i Info.plist -d Description.plist

The plists were primed with Iceberg 1.2.3, and have been hand - edited (I thought conservatively) since . The Iceberg project did have the "Build Mac OS X 10.1 compatible packages" box checked; I don't need that, really, but I'd rather keep it than go into an extended test after changing it.

Well, there is a flaw in the design of the 10.0 package format which could explain the problem.

The name of the components inside the pckage bundle are named after the bundle itself. If your package was named Rad5372397.pkg, then you would get inside the Resources folder of the bundle a Rad5372397.info file.

If you renamed the package, all hell would break loose and the package could usually not be installed.

So one possibility is that the package was renamed at one point. But I don't see that happening on a recent OS version.
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