RE: Drive selection in 10.5
RE: Drive selection in 10.5
- Subject: RE: Drive selection in 10.5
- From: "John Williams" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:12:58 -0700
- Thread-topic: Drive selection in 10.5
Well, at least thanks for the chuckle, Stéphane!
I find it amusing that Apple is now recommending the use of 'managed installations' but their tools are woefully inadequate for the job.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stéphane Sudre [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:06 PM
To: John Williams
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Drive selection in 10.5
On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:49 PM, John Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a distribution created with PackageMaker 2.1.1 that is working
> oddly on 10.5.
>
> Here's the scenario (shortened a bit)
> - Restart mac (to ensure a clean slate)
> - Run installer
> - Click through license agreement
> - Get volume selection page
> - Pick a volume and continue
> - Get custom install page
> - Click continue
> - Get ready to install page
> - Quit installer
>
> - Run installer again (without restarting)
> - Click through license agreement
> - Get custom install page (no volume selection page)
> - Click Continue
> - Get ready to install page, but this time there's a Change Install
> Location button
> -- Clicking this button takes you back to the License Agreement page
> -- You can never get to the volume selection page
>
> The installer is set to always show a Custom install since we have
> various plug-ins, system startup files, standalone apps, etc that can
> be installed.
> I'm assuming OS X is caching the location requirements somewhere but I
> haven't been able to figure a way around this.
>
> Any ideas?
IMHO, It's a bug. I'm not able to find the Radar number for it but I'm pretty sure I reported it a long time ago (1 year ago). It could be 5007444 which was a duplicate of 4594713.
This problem is visible with the Xcode installer for instance.
Basically, what you will see depends on whether Punxsutawney Phil sees its shadow or Bill Murray. Which is not a good thing for end- users (and Phil).
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