Re: Package maker always looses destination path, often access rights?
Re: Package maker always looses destination path, often access rights?
- Subject: Re: Package maker always looses destination path, often access rights?
- From: Thomas Engelmeier <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:46:11 +0200
Am 08.09.2008 um 20:13 schrieb John Brisbin:
This should hardly be news to anyone who reads this list, but I hope
it might become a bit more important in the developer's (or their
manager's) minds.
Fortunately, we still target 10.4 (and will for some time) so any
10.5 features tend to be unused anyway. This means there is still
time for us (and most developers with existing products) to allow
the tool to mature enough to be useful.
Thanks to everyone for the input!
Well, I have a strong aversion against banana-soft ("ripes at the
customer site"). The worst thing IMO is that permission-wise broken
installers pretty easy bypass an QA test and there is no log what was
actually installed or skipped..
Here is some more food for google:
- the package maker pmdoc files contain pretty straightforward xml
files with the installer data
- in various attempts, there I found NO way to make anything remotely
like the install destination path appear in the xml.
- I worked around the "lost permissions" bug with an post-install
script. Ugly but effective.
- the docs leave as much as the app itself room for improvement.
The following points are missing an explaination:
a.) what is the difference between the destination path in a choice
and a package
b.) the checkbox [x] include root in package of the content tab of an
sub-package seems to mean "create an folder with the name of the root
folder at the destination path", otherwise the child folders are
created / updated at the destination path
c.) some important settings are hidden in the contextual "Package
flagsā¦" menu of a sub-package
d.) even if choices are not visible, the choice name appears as
caption in File->Show Files the installer
e.) Loading a kext after install by the means of Package Maker is flaky:
Sometimes with broken permissions an dialog "is not installed
correctly" appears directly when the install is done, but not always
Regards,
Tom_E
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