Re: [Slightly OT] PackageMaker question...
Re: [Slightly OT] PackageMaker question...
- Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] PackageMaker question...
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 22:07:39 +0200
On jeudi, mai 13, 2004, at 08:07 PM, Chris Pavicich wrote:
Hi List:
I am getting ready to release a piece of software that I've written,
and would like to use PackageMaker to
distribute it.
I would like to give users the ability to install my stuff for a given
user, or for everyone. (i.e. either in /Library/ or ~/Library/)
Is there an easy way to do this, using PackageMaker?
Yes and no.
It's easy to set the package as being relocatable with the default
location being /Library.
Yet, there's an incoherence and problem in this situation.
* the incoherence:
o to install something in /Library, you need admin authorization (or
root authorization it depends on what you want to do)
o to install something in ~/Library, you don't need any authorization.
So to fill case 1 requirement, you would have to ask for admin
authorization even though you do not require it in case 2.
* the problem:
As soon as the package is relocatable, it can be installed anywhere
(there's no way (at least currently) to filter the "Choose..." target
location dialog).
Hope it helps.
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http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Iceberg.html </shameless plug>
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