RE: Error running a pkg on 10.3.9
RE: Error running a pkg on 10.3.9
- Subject: RE: Error running a pkg on 10.3.9
- From: "Michael Stauffer (Circular Logic)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:32:26 -0400
Yes, thanks. I double-checked the min install OS, and it was 10.5 for
the meta/main package. I'd only set it to 10.3 for the sub-packages.
Thanks!
I wonder why apple changed to a flat package. It use to be helpful
sometimes to look in a package bundle when the install wasn't going
well.
Cheers
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Iceberg-Dev [mailto:email@hidden]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:40 AM
>To: Michael Stauffer (Circular Logic)
>Cc: email@hidden
>Subject: Re: Error running a pkg on 10.3.9
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've created a .pkg with PM 3 on 10.5. I set the pkg's minimum OS
>> version as 10.3. It works fine on 10.5 and 10.6, but when I run on
>> 10.3.9 (PMac G4), I get the error "the bill of materials for this
>> package was not found".
>
>Is the minimum OS version a requirement or the target OS?
>
>> The pkg contains two other packages. PM used to make a metapackage,
>> but
>> when I loaded the PM project into PM 3, it now builds only as a .pkg,
>> not .mpkg. Is this part of the problem?
>>
>> Also, the final output pkg is a file, not a bundle, which is also
>> new to
>> me. The sub packages I built with PM 3 are .pkg files too, but
>> bundles.
>> Is there something I set in one project but not the other that I
>> haven't
>> found?
>
>If you get a file instead of a bundle, this could mean that the
>target OS has changed and is now 10.5 and you are building a flat
>package/distribution instead of a bundle package/metapackage.
>
>
>
>
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