Re: metapackage question
Re: metapackage question
- Subject: Re: metapackage question
- From: Iceberg-Dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:54:55 +0200
On Sep 9, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Ed Wahl wrote:
I have a metapackage containing two packages. One package installs a
driver and requires root permission to run, the other installs an app
and doesn't.
The package requiring root permission has an InstallCheck script which
returns failure if the driver is already on the system. On running the
meta package the InstallCheck is working and the root permission
package
is marked "skip", and is not re-installed.
The intent of the design was that if the root-permission component is
already installed, the metapackage installer would skip it and not ask
for root permission.
The result is that even though installation of the root permission
package is skipped, the metapackage still does ask for root
permission.
Is that just a limitation of packagemaker, or does anyone have
suggestions on how to make this work correctly?
It's how it works.
2 notes:
- I would rather not prevent the user from re-installing the driver
if it's the same version. Because you can never know if an installed
file is corrupted or not. Preventing installation of the package will
prevent the user of fixing the file.
- I don't understand why it is not needed to request root permission
to install the application. Unless you're installing the application
in a user's directory, which I doubt since you're installing a kext,
the application will be installed in /Applications and will be at
least root:admin (root:wheel if you follow what Apple does on Mac OS
X 10.6).
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