Re: packagemaker doesn't work
Re: packagemaker doesn't work
- Subject: Re: packagemaker doesn't work
- From: Abraham Nelson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:01:31 -0800 (PST)
--- Christopher Ryan <email@hidden> wrote:
> Can you describe a little more two things:
>
> 1) Why the Package Maker GUI is too limited to use
> (we can't make it
> better without good feedback).
Well for one, the interface doesn't allow for
specifying plist key values in the Package
Requirements section, and it doesn't allow any
existing requirements in the list to be easily
removed, requiring to start the package definition
over again.
Additionally, the Authentication popup always gets
reset when saving or switching tabs, which got
annoying *real* fast!
But my main reason for doing it through the command
line was to call it from a build script from Xcode
when building a project, since I wouldn't be able to
get the proper settings from the .pmproj (see first
rant above), and I'd have to go through modifying the
values of the plist everytime.
> 2) What arguments you are sending to the CLI. One
> of the most common
> "new" restrictions is that you need to have a
> package identifier
> (CFBundleIdentifier), it is possible that you don't,
> although the
> error should be stated more clearly.
>
> Chris
>
I tried the most minimal arguments as described in the
manpage, so something like:
/Developer/Tools/packagemaker -build -p ~/package.pkg
-f ~/folderwithdata/ -v
After receiving your message I tried again with
specifying an Info.plist file (which would have the
bundle ID defined) created earlier by the GUI, and it
finally did work; but obviously such an error should
be more clearly stated, and there's a major bug in the
man page since the -i argument is obviously no longer
optional (and doesn't generate a skeletal file as
indicated if the option is ommited)
P.S. I'm running on OS X 10.4.3 with all latest
developer tools updates
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