some alarming PackageMaker / Installer behaviour
some alarming PackageMaker / Installer behaviour
- Subject: some alarming PackageMaker / Installer behaviour
- From: Jason Proctor <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:29:40 -0700
#pragma list-newbie
i'm seeing some rather alarming behaviour after upgrading from MacOS
10.4.11 to 10.5.5 and XCode 3.1.1.
first, it seems like XCode brings along with it PackageMaker 3.0.3,
which immediately obsoleted all my happy .pmproj files. i'm not
really seeing why this was necessary, but anyway, reauthoring the PM
projects didn't take too long. but then when i ran the installer
packages that PM created, i didn't find the applications in
/Applications as i expected.
it occurred to me to check the Console for any log messages that the
installer had dropped on its way to not putting things where it
should, and i got a shock. the first time i ran the installer, it
installed into another of my applications in /Applications. i thought
this was a bit off, but put it down to my migration process. i might
have put the wrong application name in, etc. so i went and rechecked
all that stuff again, same result. also i noticed that some
components were being installed back into their *source* locations,
rather than going to their *destination* location (ie /Applications).
so i thought OK, what happens if i remove the overwritten
application? the third time i ran the installer, i got a big shock.
check this log message out --
9/29/08 3:34:11 PM pkgExtractor[42357] Diverting
"./Notifier.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj" to
"/Users/jason/am_install/dist/mac/PackageRoot/Applications/Notifier.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj"
hmmm. now am_install is an old repository which is not used any more,
and has no relation whatsoever to the application being installed. i
wonder whether if i removed am_install from my home directory, would
the installer then go and find another such hierarchy to install
into? at this point i started to get really worried, as i can't
deploy to Mac under these circumstances.
before i carry on with more detail etc, is this a known issue?
thanks muchly
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