Apple

We have an installer with a postflight script written in KSH. It needs the installation destination.

Originally it was coded to use $2, as that is what the documentation says it should be. However whenever the package being installed resides in a directory with a space (or multiple spaces), or if the destination directory contains one or more spaces, this gets fouled up. The arguments passed to the postflight are not quoted, and so the postflight script gets more arguments. E.G.

Package to install is located in:

/Space Dir/my_app.pkg

And I choose an installation directory of:

/Applications/My App

Then when postflight runs, it receives 6 arguments:

Arg1: /Space

Arg2: Dir/my_app.pkg

Arg3: /Applications/My

Arg4: App

Arg5: /

Arg6: /.

Now we can pick up the package path from $PACKAGE_PATH, but there does not seem to be a clean way to get the Installation directory. Our current workaround

is to mash all the arguments together and then try and parse things out ourselves. This leaves us vulnerable to Apple changing something.

Also we have a customer that was installing, and on his system he did not receive 4 arguments as the documentation states, he only had 3 arguments:

Arg1: Path to install package

Arg2: Install directory

Arg3: /.

Does anyone have any idea why this would be? He was not using any directories with spaces in it.

Thanks

Keith Hafen

Siemens