Re: updaters
Re: updaters
- Subject: Re: updaters
- From: Iceberg-Dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:45:41 +0100
On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:45 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.
What's possible to do is this:
- have a .bom file that describes what will get installed.
- install nothing from the pax payload
- install everything from a postinstall script.
It just requires to build a standard package and a package that
installs nothing. You then replace the .pax[.gz] payload with the one
from the empty package. When you install this package through
Installer.app (tested on Tiger):
- when you display the list of files from the UI, it lists the files
- when you run the installation, it installs nothing and succeeds.
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