Re: Iceberg and relative installation paths
Re: Iceberg and relative installation paths
- Subject: Re: Iceberg and relative installation paths
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:52:19 +0100
On mardi, mars 15, 2005, at 08:49 PM, Greg Fisher wrote:
Within our Metapackage, we have a package that we want to be installed
within the users "home" folder . . . such as /users/username. Since
that folder name will depend on who the current user is, we must use a
relative path for the destination . . . such as "~/". But there
doesn't seem to be a way to insert such a location as the default path
or as the relative path. If we have to use the Chooser, we are
limited to the existing folders. What are we missing?
This is not a feature supported by Installer.app AFAIK.
In PackageMaker, you can set the default location to be ~/ but it's not
going to work with Installer.app.
There are some workaround as:
- using a relocatable package, not asking for any authentication
permissions and letting the user select his/her home folder
or
- installing stuff in /tmp/ and then copying them back to the $HOME
folder via a postflight script (since the script is run with the
current user id, there's hope $HOME points to the correct folder).
My $0.02
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