Re: Two Installer issues on Snow Leopard...
Re: Two Installer issues on Snow Leopard...
- Subject: Re: Two Installer issues on Snow Leopard...
- From: Stephen Greenfield <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:53:21 -0800
- Thread-topic: Two Installer issues on Snow Leopard...
Title: Re: Two Installer issues on Snow Leopard...
on 12/16/09 5:00 PM, Greg Neagle at email@hidden wrote:
On Dec 16, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Stephen Greenfield wrote:
As of rebuilding / testing on Snow Leopard, an installer that was perfectly happy “replacing” the previous version of an application doesn’t seem to want to anymore. Even hand-deleting the application that it should install over doesn’t seem to work — no application gets installed.
Are you sure you're not seeing the effects of the "relocation" feature? That is, Installer is replacing/upgrading a copy of the app somewhere other than where you think it should be...?
Greg,
You were absolutely positively correct about this. And of course, on my development machine, there are countless “copies” of different versions, all just begging to be replaced by that relocation feature! Work perfectly once I turned that checkbox off.
When I completely “rebuilt” the installer (due to other problems), it now generates a mpkg, whereas before it was a .pkg.mpkg.
Used to be I could just trash the receipts, and do a clean test, but there isn’t a receipt generated for the metapackage (Snow Leopard?).
Sure there is. It's just moved, but you're really supposed to use
pkgutil --forget org.myorg.packageid
OK, now I recall reading about this — somewhere. Was the PackageMaker documentation updated to discuss this?
Thanks!!!
Stephen Greenfield
Write Brothers, Inc.
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