Re: Is setting a custom folder icon possible?
Re: Is setting a custom folder icon possible?
- Subject: Re: Is setting a custom folder icon possible?
- From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:26:39 -0700
At 11:07 PM -0700 5/17/05, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
On mardi, mai 17, 2005, at 08:37 PM, Christopher Ryan wrote:
Mike,
This shouldn't be necessary and is either 1) a
missing feature in the installer or 2) a bug.
I would consider it a bug.
Radar# 3635123 Custom icon folder not saved/set/installed 27-Apr-2004 10:33 AM
IMHO, this is more a limitation of the pax format.
The installer doesn't use the 'pax format'. We
use CPIO archives that are gziped. Pax is merely
the command line tool that reads these files.
The CPIO format doesn't store extended
attributes, so we run a tool called 'SplitForks'
that moves all extended attributes (resource
fork, finder flags, mac type & creator) into a
'._' file.
The bug 3635123 was duped to 3551477, which was a
bug in SplitForks that kept it from running on
directories. There was also a bug in PackageMaker
that was fixed in 10.4 where PM wasn't calling
SplitForks at all on the directories.
So the answer here is that if you use the 10.4
version of SplitForks, or PackageMaker, the
custom icon bit on your folders should be
preserved in the archive, and the installer on
10.4 _and earlier_ should all correctly restore
the bit.
-pmb
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