Re: updaters
Re: updaters
- Subject: Re: updaters
- From: Crawford Kyle <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:28:24 -0500
Well said Greg.
I've been thinking about this. Is there a way Apple could disallow
these arbitrary installer scripts and still support the scenarios that
seem to require them? Perhaps this warrants a separate thread.
Kyle
On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Greg Neagle wrote:
As a systems administrator, I expect the changes an installation
package makes to be documented in the Archive.bom (for bundle-style
receipts), or in the receipts database (for Leopard-style flat
packages). I don't expect to have to reverse engineer what a
postinstall script installed.
That's what I mean by violating the spirit.
There's nothing stopping a developer from doing this. Heck, there's
nothing stopping a developer from shipping an installer package that
has no payload at all, but whose post-install script downloads
random content off the internet and installs it at random spots in
my filesystem, and then uploads the contents of my home directory
(or any portion thereof) to the developer's server.
But that violates the spirit of installation packages.
-Greg
On Feb 15, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Dodger wrote:
2009/2/13 Greg Neagle <email@hidden>:
(you _could_ with a postflight script, but that's really violating
the spirit of install packages)
How so?
I'm using that exact sort of functionality deliberately. In my case,
I'm installing 3D assets that are derived works based on other ones,
by making the installer include only the deviationa and not the
original, thereby making it so I'm not redistributing the original
content.
--
Dodger
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