Re: installation with system restart in 10.4, but not in 10.5
Re: installation with system restart in 10.4, but not in 10.5
- Subject: Re: installation with system restart in 10.4, but not in 10.5
- From: Peelman Nick <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:38:45 -0400
I did something similar when repackaging Adobe Reader 8, since it was
not universal. Built a package for PPC and one for Intel, each with
an InstallationCheck (i can't remember now if i used the script or
just a package requirement from the GUI) and then put them into a
Meta. The proper one got installed, the spare got ignored, everything
was peachy.
-nick
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On Jul 30, 2008, at 18:46, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Guoliang Li wrote:
hi, my package need to be installed with system restart in 10.4,
but not in 10.5, can someone give me a solution for this kind of
issue? Thanks.
Best wishes. AndrewLi
I have a stupid solution for this one if you can use a metapackage
instead of just a package.
Create a metapackage with 2 packages:
- Package A: your package that does not require restart.
- Package B: another package that requires restart and installs
nothing.
In Package B, use an InstallationCheck script that will return 64 if
the OS is Mac OS X 10.5 or later, 0 otherwise. It might be useful to
also add a postflight script to delete this package receipt after
installation (or remove it from the sqlite3 receipts data base on
Leopard using the tool and option mentioned in a recent post (this
will prevent this package from being discarded because it's already
installed ).
Depending on whether you use a distribution script or a good old
metapackage, you might be able to hide the fact that it's a
metapackage to the user or you can set Package B to be required.
My $0.02
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