Re: PackageMaker and Tiger/Leopard Packages
Re: PackageMaker and Tiger/Leopard Packages
- Subject: Re: PackageMaker and Tiger/Leopard Packages
- From: henri <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:03:04 +1300
There probably is a way to make package maker do what you want.
However, if I was in your situation I would deal with this by writing
a pre or post hook script. Perhaps someone else on the list will be
able to provide you with some instructions for using PackageMaker.
On 19/12/2008, at 10:47 PM, Adam Mercer wrote:
Henri
Thanks, thats an option, but surely PackageMaker should be able to
do this?
Cheers
Adam
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 00:23, henri <email@hidden>
wrote:
> One way (probably not the best) would be to have a script which
determines
> the OS you are installing onto and then uses the install command
to install
> the various packages.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to make an installer using PackageMaker that installs a
>> series of different packages that I've already created but am
running
>> into a little Tiger/Leopard issue. I have in total 8 different
>> packages that need to be included in the meta-package and the
problem
>> I am having is that one of them requires Leopard whereas all the
>> others will run on both Tiger and Leopard.
>>
>> My goal is to have a single installer that can be used on both
Tiger
>> and Leopard giving the option of installing all packages on
Leopard,
>> and all but the Leopard only package on Tiger. To do this I build
all
>> packages with a minium target of Tiger and then in the meta-package
>> added the requirement that the System OS should be >= 10.5.0 for
the
>> package that requires Leopard. If I then build and run this
installer
>> on Leopard the package that has the requirement of System OS >=
10.5.0
>> is greyed out and I am unable to select it.
>>
>> I have also tried building this Leopard only package with a minimum
>> target of Leopard, but they I am unable to use this package in the
>> meta-package as when building I get an warning stating that "No
>> payload could be found. The package will not be built." I also get
>> this error if I put the version check into the Leopard only package
>> itself.
>>
>> Surely it must be possible to do this. Can anyone offer any
pointers?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Adam
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