Re: Upgrade installer info?
Re: Upgrade installer info?
- Subject: Re: Upgrade installer info?
- From: Christopher Ryan <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:42:11 -0800
One other way to do this is to build a sparse package of 1.0.1 and
have a file in the Resources folder named "Hints.plist"
which had:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://
www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<array>
<array>
<string>/*</string>
<string>dontobsolete</string>
</array>
</array>
</plist>
This will instruct the installer not to remove items that existed in
the old package and not the new package.
Chris
At 11:17 AM -0800 3/1/06, Nathan Herring wrote:
I can create a installer package for say the 1.0 version of my
product suite. Beyond a few applications, there's a large number
of supporting frameworks and files. Great. Now, I need to edit two
of the largish applications for a 1.0.1 release. In the old days,
we could use VISE and patch the two largish applications, probably
using whatever binary diffing format they have.
Is there any such process for the Apple Installer? Is there a way
to patch rather than overwrite? Is creating the upgrade installer
just a matter of having a sparse installation folder and archiving
that, or are there other instructions?
There isn't explicit support for this, but we're considering it for
a future release.
The workaround is pretty simple: just create a package that the
installer won't realize is an 'upgrade' of your old package, and
only put the modified files in the new package.
That gives you a 'sparse' package, and the installer won't delete
any of the missing files as long as it doesn't match your package
to the older version by CFBundleID or package name.
-pmb
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