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Re: Packages and updating installer folder
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Re: Packages and updating installer folder


  • Subject: Re: Packages and updating installer folder
  • From: Rustam Muginov <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:22:33 -0700

Thank you very much, Stephane.
And thank you for your great product, i should have moved to it several years ago.
--
Sincerely,
Rustam Muginov

On Sep 12, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Stephane Sudre wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Rustam Muginov <email@hidden> wrote:
>>        Hi all.
>> I am starting to use Packages, which does look better and way less buggy then PackageMaker. I had run into some problem creating "updater" installer.
>> Lets say, installer put the following files into folder
>>
>> /Library/Application Support/DummySupport/
>>        libdummy.dylib
>>        dummy.config
>>
>> I am building updater installer which should update only "libdummy.dilyb" but leave "libdummy.config" intact - not including it into source.
>> As the result, the "config" file is removed.
>> I had found a workaround - in the Package Settings, change the package indentifier of the updater. Is it the valid approach or I should do something else?
>
> When an updater does not include all the original files, using a
> different identifier is the recommended way to proceed AFAIK.


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