Apparent PackageMaker tool bug (was "No package identifier specified")
Apparent PackageMaker tool bug (was "No package identifier specified")
- Subject: Apparent PackageMaker tool bug (was "No package identifier specified")
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:51:31 -0500
Suggestions, on-list and off-, that I may not have set the package
identifier, were inapposite to my problem (which I'd oversimplified
in the hope of getting replies on this go-round).
More examination shows my problem to be a strange interaction between
the PackageMaker tool and recursive calls to a GNU makefile.
When doing a recursive make (make -C subdir all), GNUmake changes the
working directory to subdir, but leaves the bash environment variable
PWD unchanged. (Googling leads me to believe that POSIX is okay with
this behavior.) Every shell command I've seen performs correctly when
this happens. Except PackageMaker.
It appears that PackageMaker does not rely on file-name parameters
being relative to the current working directory. Instead, it makes
these file names relative to PWD.
So in a recursive make, "PackageMaker ... -i Info.plist" tries to
pull Info.plist from PWD, the _parent_ directory.
The workaround seems to be to set PWD before invoking PackageMaker:
PWD=`pwd` \
PackageMaker -build -p build/CPBase.pkg -f ./root -b /tmp -ds \
-r resources -i Info.plist -d Description.plist
This can't be an uncommon situation — surely others are building
mpkgs by having makefiles build the constituent pkgs first and the
mpkg from them?
Is this, as I believe, a bug in PackageMaker? I want to do a reality
check before slogging through a Radar report.
— F
On 28 Jun 2007, at 1:11 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote:
I sent this question about a week ago, but perhaps the abundant
detail I included scared people off.
Short question (which may lead to more):
What does it mean when the PackageMaker tool emits the error message:
The package could not be created because of the following errors:
No package identifier specified.
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