Re: Can Installer.app download things?
Re: Can Installer.app download things?
- Subject: Re: Can Installer.app download things?
- From: Taylor Armstrong <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:43:58 -0400
Rusty,
I've thought about going the http route for this exact reason (update
the payload periodically, keep the package), but how would you deal
with versioning? IE - how would your package know whether you're
trying to upgrade vs. install if the package itself hasn't changed? In
my environment, it wouldn't be a big deal to just bump the version #
and redistribute the package, but if I'm updating the package anyway, I
figure I may as well just roll the payload in as well.
Taylor
Rusty Myers wrote:
It is very possible to download your payload from an http site. It is
correct to say that your post or preflight scripts will not do as good
of a job downloading as the packagemakers built in http. For one,
packages don't have any clue what your doing in the scripts.
You can also include the payload outside the installer, on some other
media or a specified path (automounts come to mind).
I experimented with http payloads and found that it wasn't helpful for
my situation. They could be, however, an easy way to keep your payload
up to date without having to redistribute the installer package.
Rusty
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Nick Peelman <email@hidden> wrote:
Also, I'll mention that you should give a look at some of Apple's
installers, particularly the Xcode installer, as it is a metapackage whose
sub packages live outside of it. It may not be exactly what you're looking
for, but it may give you some other ideas or get you going in suitable
direction.
-nick
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On Mar 22, 2010, at 18:07, Paul Sanders wrote:
I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no, but is there a way to construct a
package such that the OS X installer downloads part of the content, rather
than expecting to find it within the package itself?
Thx - Paul Sanders.
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