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Re: postinstall scripts not executing
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Re: postinstall scripts not executing

  • Subject: Re: postinstall scripts not executing
  • From: Jeremy Matthews <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:34:43 -0400
Yep - except we want to write our specific items to those files - like a serial number - which we don't want to give them to enter.

-j

On Aug 14, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Luke Bellandi wrote:

Right -- so I'd assume that you'd install as root, then a user would launch
the app. Launched by the user, the app would write out preferences in the
user pref directory. Isn't that what you're trying to do here?


On 8/14/08 10:28 AM, "Jeremy Matthews" <email@hidden> wrote:

The issue would be that the installer runs as root, and not the user
install it.
We have user-based preference files...

Thanks,
j

On Aug 14, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Luke Bellandi wrote:

I'd suggest having the application write out all preferences. It's
generally
much better practice to have the application manage all preferences as
opposed to having the Installer push defaults into place during
installation.

Apps can check for non-existent prefs on first launch and write them
out
then as necessary.


On 8/14/08 9:56 AM, "Jeremy Matthews" <email@hidden> wrote:

Question - can we get packagemaker to respect the tilde-based path in
component installation paths?
Every time we tried it kicked it back...but this would be really nice
for depositing user-specific files during an install.

Thanks,
jeremy

On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Gignac, Jason (HAS-SAT) wrote:

My pleasure.


On 8/14/08 Thursday, August 14, 2008 -11:24 AM, "Jeremy Matthews"
<email@hidden> wrote:

hmmm...interesting.

Thanks!

-j

On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Gignac, Jason (HAS-SAT) wrote:

You might try just putting a default pref file in the package,
then
writing,
see if ti works. I've had mixed results with writing to
nonexistent
prefs
files.


On 8/14/08 Thursday, August 14, 2008 -11:20 AM, "Jeremy Matthews"
<email@hidden> wrote:

Hmmm - some do and some don't.
Normally, when you perform that kind of action, it will create
the
plist if not already there....unless you know something I have
forgotten...

Ideas?

thanks,
jeremy

On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Gignac, Jason (HAS-SAT) wrote:

Does the pref file you are writing to already exist or not?


On 8/14/08 Thursday, August 14, 2008 -11:17 AM, "Jeremy
Matthews"
<email@hidden> wrote:

Hmmmm...even if we were writing to defaults to:

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.xxx simplestring abc123

I get the user defaults thing - we can work around that.

Thanks,
jeremy

On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Luke Bellandi wrote:

Hi Jeremy,

IIRC, if when installing a package with Admin/Root privileges,
these
scripts
are run as root user. In that case, any mucking with user-
preferences will
change the root user's preferences -- not the prefs of the
user
that
launched the package. I'd check that out.

Best,
Luke

On 8/14/08 5:40 AM, "Jeremy Matthews" <email@hidden >
wrote:

After doing some maintenance on my computer I noticed that
simple
shell scripts are now working (echo commands, etc) in
packages -
maybe
those 3 developer packages needed some housekeeping...

However, some of my other postinstall scripts don't execute
(which I
never tried before anyways); most of these write to user
defaults,
for
example, registering Transmit:

-----
## Licensing Transmit
defaults write com.panic.Transmit3 SerialNumber XXXX-XXXX-
XXXX-
XXXX
-----

What are the known limits to postinstall scripts?

Thanks,
jeremy


On Aug 13, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Gignac, Jason (HAS-SAT) wrote:

That's correct, 'ccording to Apple, you just have the one
pre
and
the one
post script in a flat package.


On 8/13/08 Wednesday, August 13, 2008 -4:38 PM, "Stéphane
Sudre"
<email@hidden> wrote:


On Aug 13, 2008, at 12:22 AM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:


Since I got asked (more than once) about using
postUPPGRADE
scripts
(not just postinstall), I assumed there was some bug in
packagemaker that mean it was supporting those as a
workaround
for
not supporting postINSTALL scripts.

So, I had specified a postinstall script (per 10.5 -
normal)
as
well as a directory containing a scripts "postupgrade". Of
course,
I tried builgind and installing packages with and without
that
option - nothing seemed to work.

If you can provide a sample package illustrating the issue,
this
can
help.

As far as I can tell (from the documentation), postupgrade
script
are
not supported by the FLAT package format. Adding one to the
resources
would not help.



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