Re: Non-admin install to Home Receipt error
Re: Non-admin install to Home Receipt error
- Subject: Re: Non-admin install to Home Receipt error
- From: don montalvo <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:41:09 -0400
my understanding is that packagemaker isn't designed to install into users' home directories. is this true? does packagemaker not understand "~"? i guess i can test but i've been doing pretty much as others have suggested...install into /tmp and mv using post install script to "~".
don
Luke Bellandi <email@hidden> wrote:
Hi David,
Please file a bug about this issue at http://bugreporter.apple.com.
Certainly we should provide a better solution for this sort of workflow.
Thanks,
Luke
On Apr 26, 2007, at 9:32 AM, David Bainbridge wrote:
> As has been mentioned in the archives but without a clear solution,
> I am trying to install to the User's Application folder ( ~/
> Applications). To do this in PackageMaker I install to /tmp first
> then with postinstall script mv application to the user's
> Applications folder. The problem is the receipt is trying to be
> copied by packagemaker to the /Library/Receipts folder instead of ~/
> Library/Receipts. The installer does not require Admin privs so
> this does not work and I get this error in the log:
> Apr 26 10:39:05 Mac-Pro : pkgReceiptMaker[518]: 2007-04-26
> 10:39:05.052 pkgReceiptMaker[518] Error 13 (Permission denied)
> trying to rename App.pkg to /Library/Receipts/App.pkg
>
> What is required to avoid this error since the installer tells the
> user the installation failed because of this??
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