Re: Ugh, PackageMaker woes.
Re: Ugh, PackageMaker woes.
- Subject: Re: Ugh, PackageMaker woes.
- From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:20:01 -0700
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:38 AM, G S <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all. Someone just referred me to this list. I'm having two major
> problems with my simple PackageMaker project at the moment. You may have
> heard them before.
>
> 1. The mpkg just isn't overwriting two of the three things it's supposed to
> be overwriting, and I don't get any error message. I can't see any
> permission problem. For example, I'm trying to install a component in
> /Library/QuickTime, and the older one never gets overwritten. The weird
> thing is that another package that does work is being written to
> /Library/Frameworks, so it's not a blockage on everything under /Library
> (and I am prompting for administrative password for the installer).
>
> After many gyrations and experiments, I discovered the (as far as I can tell
> undocumented) context menu on the packages, which offers an option to
> override the target directories' permissions. That doesn't help.
This option would just use the permissions defined in your payload if
the directory happened to exist both on disk and in your payload.
>I also
> experimented to determine how the "apply recommendations" option works for
> setting permissions of package contents (which also seems to be
> undocumented), and that didn't help either.
>
> If I delete the files that are supposed to be overwritten before running the
> installer, everything goes into the right place.
So this is not a relocation issue.
2 questions:
- Which OS version?
- How do you check that the new files are correctly installed? Finder
Info Window?
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