[Solved but...] Is there a way to make Installer.app more verbose?
[Solved but...] Is there a way to make Installer.app more verbose?
- Subject: [Solved but...] Is there a way to make Installer.app more verbose?
- From: Iceberg-Dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:29:05 +0200
On Aug 23, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Iceberg-Dev wrote:
Installer.app is complaining that the Source media I am installing
is corrupted.
OK but it's correctly seen by Pacifist and it can be extracted from
Pacifist.
It fails with the following output:
BOMFatalError - cpio read error: bad file format
OK, so the problem in this case was that the Payload file of the flat
package was compressed "twice".
Basically, there is room for improvement in Installer.app regarding
the way it deals with flat packages because it is as flexible as an
iron bar.
Flat packages are xar archives. You can add files to a xar archive
and by default it will compress them as gzip file inside the archive.
Installer.app (or the Installation Framework) assumes that the
Payload file has been added uncompressed to the xar archive. But at
the same time the Flat Package Editor does not complain when the file
is added compressed.
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