RE: Two PackageMaker problems
RE: Two PackageMaker problems
- Subject: RE: Two PackageMaker problems
- From: "Steve Johnson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:59:44 -0800
- Thread-topic: Two PackageMaker problems
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the quick (like 2 minutes later...yikes!) response. Yeah,
I'm doing the same thing. It's really lame that we should have to do
this.
So have you had this particular problem? Do you just set the
permissions back to the usual defaults, or do you go through the trouble
of saving the exact state of these dirs before installing, and then
restoring them back to exactly what they were before. I guess I'm
wondering if someone would ever want to change the default permissions
on these dirs, and therefore be pissed when my installer restores the
default settings. Does Apple know about this problem?
Take care,
Steve
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt DeFoor [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:54 AM
> To: Steve Johnson; email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Two PackageMaker problems
>
> > 1) My installers clobber the ownership and permission flags of the
root
> > folders into which they install, even though I have
> > 'IFPkgFlagOverwritePermissions' flag set to 'false'. For example,
if I
> > install in /usr/local/bin, my installer changes the permissions on
/,
> > /usr, /local, and /bin. I've tried building packages both from the
> > command line and using the PackageMaker GUI, with the same results.
> > This seems so fundamentally busted, that I figure I must be missing
> > something. Please HELP!!!
>
> I use a postinstall shell script to solve these sorts of problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
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