Re: How to embed a unique ID into an installer PKG?
Re: How to embed a unique ID into an installer PKG?
- Subject: Re: How to embed a unique ID into an installer PKG?
- From: Ian Hummel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:16:31 -0400
Thank you all.
On Jul 18, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
On Jul 18, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Ian Hummel wrote:
By "archived" you mean zipped... right?
Yes.
Is there any format other than DMG that will automatically open
when safari has downloaded it?
I don't know. When I read your question the first time, my first
thought was "security flaws?". dmg is a good solution if you want to
provide a ReadMe along with your package. Otherwise zip is a good
solution. The good thing with zip file is that since most packages
do not have components with resource fork, you can create your zip
archive easily with your Linux server. I don't think it would be
that easy to create a dmg on Linux.
On Jul 17, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
On Jul 17, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Ian Hummel wrote:
I have a strange requirement.
Whenever someone downloads our installer, we need to (on the
server) insert a unique identifier somewhere into the installer.
Then, during the installation, we use this unique suffix when
making requests to another web service.
My application is packaged as a PKG (not a "flat-file" - I was
considering just renaming the downloaded file server-side and
checking it during install) and now I am wondering how to do
this...
How does one normally embed some kind of unique identifier into
each installer? My server is running linux, so the solution
would have to work there....
Where do you want to embed the ID:
[ ] The name of the package
[ ] Inside the package bundle in a file
[ ] Inside the Info.plist of the package
?
Since your package can only be download if it's archived or inside
a disk image, in all cases, you will need to have some processing
being done.
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