Re: How do I get Packagemaker to install plug-ins for Adobe
Re: How do I get Packagemaker to install plug-ins for Adobe
- Subject: Re: How do I get Packagemaker to install plug-ins for Adobe
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:21:39 +0100
On mardi, janvier 23, 2007, at 06:56 PM, Aaron London wrote:
I suggest stepping back for a moment and learning how to use existing
PackageMaker/Installer features.
1. Read the new Apple Software Delivery Guide:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/
Softw
areDistribution
2. See the following section of the Apple Legacy Software Delivery
Guide:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/
Softw
areDistribution4/Concepts/sd_find_file.html
3. Read the PackageMaker app help, it is much better in recent
versions.
As with so many responses posted to problems on this list, the answers
to this question start from the wrong direction. Instead of suggesting
that someone write some nasty script hack or even try an installer
plugin (which won't work in ARD or silent install contexts), we should
be encouraging new users to learn and use the basic existing features
of
the tool.
Yes, this can be done using a Search Method (or many).
My test case is for an Acrobat Reader Plugin and it looks like this:
Root --+-- Applications --+-- Acrobat Reader --+-- Contents --+-- MacOS
--+-- Plug-Ins
The files to install are in Plug-Ins.
There are 2 Search Methods attached to the Acrobat Reader "folder"
CommonAppSearch
Identifier: com.adobe.acrobat.reader
Default Path: /Applications/Acrobat Reader
LaunchServicesLookup
Identifier: com.adobe.acrobat.reader
Creator: CARO
AFAIK, the only issue is when the application is not installed. Because
the plug-in is going to be installed anyway (to the default path). To
prevent that you would need to check for the presence of Adobe products
in InstallationCheck or VolumeCheck and so you would end up doing the
same job twice (the second time is less easy).
Maybe there's a better way to do this now.
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