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Re: Two PackageMaker problems
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Re: Two PackageMaker problems

  • Subject: Re: Two PackageMaker problems
  • From: Christopher Ryan <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:30:51 -0800
Steve,

Ok, I will take a look at the package, it should not be happening on anything after 10.3.5.

Thanks,

Chris

I'm running 10.3.8 (7U16). What I mean by up-to-date is that "Software
Update" is showing no available updates. I've been seeing this problem
for a while now...I'm pretty sure it's persisted over a couple of OS
revisions.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Ryan [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:52 PM
To: Steve Johnson
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Two PackageMaker problems

There was a known problem like this in 10.3, which was fixed in
10.3.5. 

You say you are up-to-date on Panther, are you running 10.3.9, then?

Chris

Hi Chris,

Thanks for replying.  I hope you can help me figure this out...

I'm running a totally up-to-date Panther with XTools 1.5.  Two other
engineers installed one of my early installers (before I fixed the
problem with a postinstall script), and they both saw the problem.
I 
assume they were both running Panther as well.

You can grab one of our installers off of out ftp site if you'd like
to
take a look.

ftp://tmuser:email@hidden/mediarich/macosx/
MediaRichDemos
.dmg

This installer is an add-on, so it won't install unless you first
create
a file (with arbitrary contents) at:

  /Library/MediaRich/Bin/MediaEngine/MediaGen

This installer fixes up the permissions with the 'postinstall'
script.
It's a Perl script. If you edit that file in the package and
comment
out the three system() lines under the comment "# Restore the
standard 
permissions...", then you can see what the installer itself is doing
to
the permissions.  Once you do this, / and /Library will get screwed
up 
by this installer.

I don't explicitly mention the IFPkgFlagOverwritePermissions flag at
all
in my Info.plist file.  The PackageMaker docs say this flag defaults
to
'false'.  I HAVE also tried setting it explicitly to 'false' with no
change in behavior.

Please let me know if you need anything else.  Thanks!

S

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Ryan [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:05 AM
To: Steve Johnson
Cc: Matt DeFoor; email@hidden
Subject: Re: Two PackageMaker problems

In what version of Mac OS X are you seeing this? This shouldn't
be 
necessary.

Chris

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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