Re: Bug in Package Maker causes Mayhem
Re: Bug in Package Maker causes Mayhem
- Subject: Re: Bug in Package Maker causes Mayhem
- From: Karl Kuehn <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:31:36 -0700
On Jul 17, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Alexander Hartner wrote:
Since upgrading to XCode 3.1 and presumably Package Maker 3.0.2 it
seems that the Destination is no longer persisted. I only found out
about this problem the hard way after testing my package
installation and installing everything in the root of my drive.
Initially I thought that this would be not too big a problem,
however as it turns out during the installation some system files
were overwritten, and I ended up with a broken OS. I spend 2 hours
recovering form Time Machine, and still have to do the same on
another system where I also "tested" the install package.
Unfortunately the last time a I backup the other system was a couple
of weeks ago, and now I have to spend a lot of manual effort on this.
Well enough about me complaining, however I still would like to know
why this happened. I almost shipped this to one of my clients and
this would have broken his system as well. Maybe Package Maker is
not the ideal method of distributing an Application. Maybe with all
this iPhone hype, somebody got stuck in the cloud instead of testing.
If anybody has any suggestions for a better solution to package and
deploy application please let me know.
Mainly due to this bug/gaping hole I have moved back to using Iceberg
(and open-source pkg maker).
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