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 16:20:07 -0400
I see, thanks for the insight. And I'll check out the ways to look into
a flat pkg, thanks.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Coderre [mailto:email@hidden]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 2:13 PM
>To: Michael Stauffer (Circular Logic)
>Cc: 'Iceberg-Dev'; email@hidden
>Subject: Re: Error running a pkg on 10.3.9
>
>There were a lot of small reasons to go flat. One reason is
>that a single-fork single-file installer package is that it's
>much easier to ship and store on non-Mac OS file systems
>without damage. Another is that it makes applying a digital
>signature simpler. There were others I'm not recalling at this moment.
>
>You can look inside packages by doing
>pkgutil --expand MyPackage.pkg MyPackage.pkgsrc
>
>Pacifist also is pretty happy to show the insides of a flat package.
>
>There is also a QuickLook plugin that someone wrote:
>http://www.quicklookplugins.com/2008/03/02/suspicious-package-u
>pdated-to-v11/
>
>
>
>
>On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Michael Stauffer (Circular Logic) wrote:
>> 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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