Re: My installer does not work on OS X 10.4
Re: My installer does not work on OS X 10.4
- Subject: Re: My installer does not work on OS X 10.4
- From: "Roni Music" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:24:14 +0200
Thanks for responding!
It turned out that I had set the CFBundleID
to the same as my main application, that's why it failed (but only on Tiger)
So correctiong this solved the problem
Rolf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Bierman" <email@hidden>
To: "Roni Music" <email@hidden>
Cc: <email@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: My installer does not work on OS X 10.4
> At 9:15 PM +0200 6/1/05, Roni Music wrote:
> > >
> > > > First:
> >> > "Installing this software will replace the newer version with an
> >> > older version."
> >>
> >> You are getting this message because the installer thinks you have a
> >> newer version of this package on your system. Do you?
> >
> >No, the person that installs is a customer that has not any folder
> >with the name "My Company Name" (replace with the real company name)
>
>
> The installer is not checking the files that will be installed, it's
> checking the /Library/Receipts directory for a pkg receipt that
> matches the package you're installing.
>
> It searches by CFBundleID and then package name, so your package is
> probably matching some other package that the user has previously
> installed.
>
> Or it could be matching your own package that the use has previously
> installed, if you have not been maintaining the version in the .pkg
> bundle.
>
>
> > > If so what
> >> are the version numbers? (CFBundleShortVersionString, IFMajorVersion,
> >> IFMinorVersion)
> >
> >the file that is to be installed is an old CFM shared lib file
> >that lacks everything such as CFBundleShortVersionString,
> >IFMajorVersion, IFMinorVersion etc
> >so there is no version information available at all,
> >this error message is strange
>
> Again, the version is the version of the package, not the files being
> installed by the package.
>
> -pmb
>
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