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