Re: [OT] Installation into home directory
Re: [OT] Installation into home directory
- Subject: Re: [OT] Installation into home directory
- From: Robert Borsuk <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:57:52 -0400
Tom,
Thanks. This is part what I was looking for. That's interesting
about the installer script idea, I need to look into that. I tried
modifying the info.plist to point to it (I thought I would be clever)
but it didn't install anything.
Rob Borsuk
email@hidden
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 12:36 PM, Thomas Harrington wrote:
My suggestions in this case are:
1. First consider whether this is the best location; you might be
better off aiming for /Library/PreferencePanes rather than a
user-specific location.
2. If that's not possible for some reason, you can't do what you want
directly with PackageMaker. However a post-install script may provide
a solution. Use a scheme something like, the installer puts the
software in /private/tmp/, and then your postinstall script (which
runs as the user, and therefore evaluates ~ correctly) creates
~/Library/PreferencePanes and then moves the software into it. Note
that for this to work you must not be requiring authentication in the
installer, since in that case the effective user will be root.
You *might* be able to trick PackageMaker by creating the installer to
target /Library/PreferencePanes, and then manually modifying the .info
file to point to ~. But that seems pretty iffy to me.
--
Tom Harrington
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