iTunes 4.8 installer bug.
iTunes 4.8 installer bug.
- Subject: iTunes 4.8 installer bug.
- From: Joe Ridge <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 01:58:32 -0400
Why can't the iTunes group make an installer that is not broken?
The preinstall and preupgrade scripts both contain a bug that
prevents execution from an
automated environment. They use "su ${USER} -c ...." to execute a
command, but if the installer
is being run through cron or as a startup item the ${USER} variable
is not defined. and the su doesn't execute the command and instead
becomes a shell that will never exit.
The worst part about this is that I reported the same exact bug with
the 4.7 installer.
Maybe if they aren't going to write good packages we should petition
the people who write the installer to populate the environment before
they hand off to the packages scripts.
But I'm not bitter.
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