Re: Modifying existing package - MS Office 2008
Re: Modifying existing package - MS Office 2008
- Subject: Re: Modifying existing package - MS Office 2008
- From: Taylor Armstrong <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:58:08 -0500
Thanks guys... I've not gotten to the level of modifying it in the
dist. file, although now that you remind me of it, I should have
remembered. I suspect a case of can't see the forest for the
trees..... This looks like exactly what I'll need - VERY appreciated.
Taylor
Greg Neagle wrote:
Specifically, edit the distribution.dist file and change this section:
<choice id="messenger" title="messenger-title"
description="messenger-description" tooltip="messenger-tooltip"
start_selected="false" start_enabled="false" start_visible="true"
selected="ShouldInstallPackage()">
<pkg-ref
id="com.microsoft.office.messenger.pkg.12.1.0.combo"></pkg-ref>
</choice>
to
<choice id="messenger" title="messenger-title"
description="messenger-description" tooltip="messenger-tooltip"
start_selected="false" start_enabled="false" start_visible="true"
selected="false">
<pkg-ref
id="com.microsoft.office.messenger.pkg.12.1.0.combo"></pkg-ref>
</choice>
Which should set the selected state to false.
I can't test easily, because I already have Office 2008 installed on
all handy machines...
-Greg
On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Iceberg-Dev wrote:
On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Taylor Armstrong wrote:
Had something that I expected to be simple, but Mr. Murphy and his
law have struck again.
Attempting to build a fairly vanilla MS Office 2008 package - the
only "customization" I want to make is to either remove the
Microsoft Messenger component, or simply change the default
"enabled" status to disabled so that I can push the installer out
via ARD and not have Messenger installed.
I'm able to open the package from my installer CD in PackageMaker,
make the changes, and build a new package successfully.
You lost me here. Why are you not just editing the Distribution
script in a text editor since you just need to change a choice state
or remove the choice?
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