Re: Packagemaker crash
Re: Packagemaker crash
- Subject: Re: Packagemaker crash
- From: Paul Walmsley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:51:42 +0100
I had a variety of problems for a long time when I tries to use the CLI
for PackageMaker. What's the actual command you use? I found it was
*incredibly* sensitive to the arguments you used, and if it wasn't happy
it would just crash, rather than giving you any kind of sensible
warning. I found that if the input (pmdoc) and output (pkg) names were
different then it wasn't happy. It will also crash if you omit the -i
parameter. I found that one of our scripts had '-p blah.pkg' rather
than '-o blah.pkg' which maybe was a relic from previous versions.
There were also cases where the pmdoc file preserved some filenames as
absolute rather then relative so that the build failed when it was
performed on a different machine.
In the end the basic form of the command line that worked was this:
/Developer/usr/bin/packagemaker -v --doc blah.pmdoc -o blah.pkg -i
com.company.blah
Filed as radar:// 6678946
<https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/89/wo/W2yWJmWceEbM7YL2pYCt9g/13.79.28.0.9>
Paul
Eli Bach wrote:
On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Nathan Herring wrote:
While trying to use the commandline version of packagemaker with a
premade
.pmdoc file, I get the following in the terminal:
2009-08-11 20:27:55.125 packagemaker[840:10b] Setting to : 0 (null)
2009-08-11 20:27:55.128 packagemaker[840:10b] Setting to : 0
com.jigsawlearning.teachtown.pkg
2009-08-11 20:27:55.147 packagemaker[840:10b] Setting to : 0
com.jigsawlearning.teachtown.pkg
2009-08-11 20:27:55.149 packagemaker[840:10b] relocate: (null) 0
2009-08-11 20:27:55.150 packagemaker[840:10b] *** Terminating app due to
uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '***
-[NSXMLDocument initWithXMLString:options:error:]: nil argument'
2009-08-11 20:27:55.150 packagemaker[840:10b] Stack: (
2474242027,
2528251451,
2474241483,
2474241546,
2445820292,
453371,
447720,
436209,
435510,
9986,
9918
)
Trace/BPT trap
I've attached the crash report. It works fine building the package
within
the UI.
Welcome to packagemaker cli.
From what I can tell, EVERYBODY gets this crash when they first try to
use the cli tool. It seems the tool has seen remarkably little
testing within Apple, or else this crash is considered a right of
passage...
Anyway, you can google for 'packagemaker cli crash', and see a whole
bunch of reports on this thing.
Most likely, you can get past this specific problem by adding '--id
yourpackageidentifier' to the options passed to the tool. Yes, even
though you've already typed it in within the GUI.
I suppose the tool just barely works so as to encourage you to not use
it unless you REALLY have to (ie, switch to a drag install, or to
write your own installer [which if you do, you can add uninstall while
your at it]).
Eli
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