Re: Metapackages even possible with PackageMaker??
Re: Metapackages even possible with PackageMaker??
- Subject: Re: Metapackages even possible with PackageMaker??
- From: "Sailesh Agrawal" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:13:29 -0400
This seems relavent:
http://cocoa.mamasam.com/COCOADEV/2002/07/2/40533.php
hope it helps,
Sailesh
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:08:05 -0400, "Michael George"
<email@hidden> said:
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I've looked in the mail list archives, I've checked Apple's DevCentral
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site, I've googled on the web, and I've found nothing.
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Apple's documentation of the metapackages is extremely thin. They have
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metapackages from way back in Dec2002 (the only one I checked) that
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work as they should. However, when using the Dec2002 DevTools'
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PackageMaker, I cannot even reliably get metapackages that will start
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up w/o a 999 error.
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When I *can* get them to start, they don't work right. All the
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packages are selected and I cannot unselect them (even though all but
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one are set as unselected when I created the metapackage). There is no
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tab for setting things like "Must have admin priv to run".
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So, I work and work to get a metapackage that even will run and I still
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have to hand-edit the info file and the plists and even then it doesn't
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work right.
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What is the deal? Is there a Super-Secret way to make metapackages
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that Apple uses? Is anyone out there using them? I've found a couple,
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but they suffer the same "unselectability" problem that my hand-crafted
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ones do.
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My only alternative is to have 6 separate packages and a README file
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that tells the users which one(s) they should install for their
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particular situation. Seems quite a kludge to do it that way, though.
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Is it as simple as "If you want to have a professional multi-option
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installer you CANNOT use PackageMaker to make it."? Fine, I can live
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with that, but it really irks me that I'm having SO much trouble making
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packages that Apple has been able to do for (at least) nearly a year.
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Seem kinda microsoft-ish...
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-Michael
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