Re: Turning off relocation (a hack solution to a PackageMaker bug)
Re: Turning off relocation (a hack solution to a PackageMaker bug)
- Subject: Re: Turning off relocation (a hack solution to a PackageMaker bug)
- From: "Craig Schamp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:28:22 -0800
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Iceberg-Dev <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:36 PM, Craig Schamp wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Bill Coderre <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Installer has a Locator, which uses TokenDefinifitions to automatically
>>> find, say, an app that the user has dragged out of its original spot.
>>> There's also a "relocation" flag that allows the user, during
>>> installation,
>>> to decide where to install, say, the many gigs of Jam Pack Loops.
>>> My previous solution solved this second problem, so we need to solve the
>>> first one, also.
>>> So, to turn off LOCATOR:
>>> In a FLAT package, you need to get rid of the <relocate> and <locator>
>>> tokens from the PackageInfo file, which is an XML file in disguise.
>>
>> I'm trying to remove the "locator" and "relocate" options in a flat
>> package created with PackageMaker 3.0.3, and although I see the
>> LOCATOR feature in action (a trashed copy of my app gets updated *in
>> the trash* by the installer), I can't see the "locator" and "relocate"
>> options in any PackageInfo file in the package. What am I missing?
>
> They can be in 2 locations:
>
> - in the Package itself.
>
> - in the distribution script (that is if you're ending up with a FLAT
> metapackage)
>
> I tend to remember PackageMaker favors the second solution.
>
> My $0.02
Ah! Thanks. I didn't think to look in the Distribution script. I see it now.
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