Re: 10.4 -> 10.3 PackageMaker Problems
Re: 10.4 -> 10.3 PackageMaker Problems
- Subject: Re: 10.4 -> 10.3 PackageMaker Problems
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:08:18 +0200
On mardi, mars 27, 2007, at 08:02 PM, Andrew Otto wrote:
In order to ask for help, I first have to describe all of the quirky
behaviors I am seeing.
I started out using PackageMaker.app distributed with OS X 10.4 to
build a simple package with a preinstall and preupgrade script. This
package .app file in my package root is not copied into the
Applications/ directory as it should be. Also, my scripts are
printing the arguments and environment variables to an install log,
and these are not set properly. For example, on 10.4, the $2 (the
target installation directory) is "/Applications", and on 10.3 is is
"/".
Having no luck installing a package created in 10.4 with 10.3
Installer.app, I (with much difficulty) obtained a copy of the 10.3
version of PackageMaker. This version worked almost perfectly. My
scripts ran exactly as they should ($2 is "/Applications"), and the
.app was copied into the /Applications directory. But the app would
not start up! It would bounce once in the dock, and then die
immediately. I then noticed that the app that was installed into the
/Application directory was about 2.5 MB smaller than the original!
Looking inside the bundle I found that the executable in the
Contents/MacOS directory was 2.5 MB smaller than the original's
executable.
So...what's going on here?! First of all, are packages created in
10.4 not compatible with 10.3's Installer.app?
It depends on whether you selected a 10.3 compatible format or not.
_Raw_ distributed scripts are not compatible with 10.3.
Secondly, why didn't my 10.3 package install properly?
Is it a Carbon application with the resources in the resource fork of
the application? If the answer is yes, then the solution lies in
checking that you enabled the Split Forks options.
Is something wrong with the pax archive?
Not for what you want to do.
I'm kind of at a loss for what to do now. Can anyone point me in the
right direction?
See above.
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