Re: silent sub-launch of dependent package during install?
Re: silent sub-launch of dependent package during install?
- Subject: Re: silent sub-launch of dependent package during install?
- From: Bill Coderre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:50:26 -0700
On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Ryan McGann wrote:
What I want to do is just launch a silent install of this package
(using
"installer") in my postinstall/postupgrade scripts. I'll embed the
dependent package in my primary package Resources, and just launch it
from the script.
I'll let somebody else confirm, but I don't believe running two
instances of "installer" at the same time is supported (or more
appropriately, two instances of the underlying install package
mechanism, "runner" or whatever it is in 10.5, is not supported).
That is why if you double click 2 .pkg's in the Finder,
Installer.app waits until one package is finished installing before
going on to the next. It might work, but I wouldn't count on it.
I won't swear it won't work, but I am pretty sure it won't. Also, the
lack of progress bar is sub-wonderful.
Why don't you want to create a metapackage? It's not that hard
really--unless you need to support 10.3 through 10.5.
10.5 is very happy to run 10.3 mpkgs.
You can set up the entire thing as a 10.3 style mpkg, where all the
packages have InstallationChecks and VolumeChecks, and each mpkg has a
listing of its subpackages, marked "required" or "optional" etc.
OR you can have the 10.3 stuff AND a 10.4 distribution. That's what
iLife did in 06. (Distributions have extra powers and launch faster.)
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