Re: Can Installer.app download things?
Re: Can Installer.app download things?
- Subject: Re: Can Installer.app download things?
- From: Rusty Myers <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:07:39 -0400
Taylor, good questions. It looks like the package version is set on
the contents of the package, not the general settings. So when you
change the package version, and replace the payload on the server, it
should download the new payload which has the updated version. I have
not tried this, but it should work that way!
Hope I explained that well.
Good luck!
Rusty
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Taylor Armstrong
<email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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> to theirs."
>
>
> 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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