Re: Drive selection in 10.5
Re: Drive selection in 10.5
- Subject: Re: Drive selection in 10.5
- From: Mark Krenek <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:12:26 -0600
It's a known bug/feature. I've filed a radar bug and Apple has
responded that it is a know issue. Here's my understanding of the
issue after taking to some of the Installer engineers:
It is a feature (added in Leopard?) that "Destination Select" is
skipped if there is only one volume to choose from. What I was
reporting is that it even skips this screen when you have multiple
volumes. Occasionally, the "Destination Select" is not selected, but
that appears to happen only when the volume checking code inside the
Installer has not finished up by the time you get to the "Destination
Select" screen.
Basically, the feature probably got to smart for itself. I think they
are looking to fix this.
Mark
On Mar 5, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
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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