Re: Creating Installer Package from Cocoa
Re: Creating Installer Package from Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Creating Installer Package from Cocoa
- From: Ryan Harter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:59:09 -0500
That sounds like exactly what I would like to do, but I'm not quite
sure how to copy the plist into the package. I was looking at using
pax, but since I'm targeting Leopard, and developing on Leopard,
package maker keeps making metapackages, which pax doesn't seem to
understand, and I can't find out the equivelent of the old "Show
Package Contents."
So far it seems o be the metapackages screwing me up. Any thoughts?
Ryan
On Jun 25, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Wayne Packard wrote:
If the only thing that changes about the pkg is that one plist file,
you could create the pkg manually and store it as a resource. When
you want to write out the custom installer, write a copy of your pkg
template to disk and then copy in your newly-created plist file.
wp
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On Jun 25, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Ryan Harter <email@hidden>
wrote:
Thanks for the response Thomas.
What I want to do is create the pkg on the fly by the code. The
setup program has text fields for the user (in this case the lab
administrator) to set the custom preferences which my program pulls
from the plist. Now I just need to be able to construct a plist
from those textfields (not too difficult with NSUserDefaults) and
create an installer pkg on the fly that includes that custom
plist. This way the user will be able to deploy their customized
version of my software without ever having to manually edit the
plist and then copy it down to all the machines.
Is this something you have done before and might know how to do.
Thanks again.
Ryan
On Jun 24, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Thomas Bartelmess wrote:
Hi Ryan,
i have not unterstand your question completely.
Do you what to create a Installer pkg on the fly by code or do you
what to create a InstallerPackage with some custom pages and
settings.
Both is possible.
I would like to help you
Thomas
Am 24.06.2008 um 01:17 schrieb Ryan Harter:
Hey all-
I have a helper program that essentially only needs to create a
plist for a different gui-less program. This can be done
manually, but I want a gui to aid users. What I would like, is
for the user to open this setup program, set some custom strings
and other preferences, and have the setup program make a pkg
including the plist that can then be deployed to all the macs.
Any thoughts,
Ryan
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