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Re: Newbie using Packages.app - place files in User libraries?
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Re: Newbie using Packages.app - place files in User libraries?


  • Subject: Re: Newbie using Packages.app - place files in User libraries?
  • From: Robin Miller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:18:13 -0400

Thanks - sometimes it's hard to know whether I'm failing to find a feature that exists, or whether the feature doesn't exist at all :)

In this case overwriting user entered values is not a problem, so I'll probably go with the last idea you mentioned: Install with the package into /tmp or something, and then copy it out using a bash script…

-Robin


On Sep 21, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Colin Cornaby wrote:

> A post flight script is generally the best way to handle this, either using defaults write from a script, or a tool written in Foundation/Cocoa.
>
> You could do other things like copying a plist into place from a post flight, but you risk over writing user entered values.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Sep 21, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Robin Miller <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm fairly new to packaging, and have been trying to use Stephane Sudre's Packages app to get some software ready for deployment to a number of machines at work.
>>
>> I would like the package installer to place a .plist file in the ~/Library/Preferences folder for the current user as well as for all other users on the computer. Does this require some post flight scripting or is there a more 'built in' way to handle this (presumably) common situation?
>>
>> Thanks,
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