Re: Package produced by productbuild command cline tool not working on 10.5
Re: Package produced by productbuild command cline tool not working on 10.5
- Subject: Re: Package produced by productbuild command cline tool not working on 10.5
- From: Greg Neagle <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:27:32 -0800
10.4 doesn't support flat packages, so using pkgbuild will never result in a package installable on 10.4.
-Greg
On Jan 2, 2013, at 2:42 PM, Dave Geering <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to create a simple .pkg file that will install on 10.4 to
> 10.8. It should install an application bundle to /Applications and a
> small support file to /Library/PDF Services. I'm using the pkgbuild
> command line tool to create a package that contains both the
> application bundle and the support script, then I use productbuild to
> produce a archive with an altered background and license agreement.
>
> I originally had an issue where the Installer would bail out
> immediately on 10.4 or 10.5 but found out it was because my
> distribution file contained some stuff from a later
> installer-gui-script spec not supported on 10.5. After removing that,
> the install *almost* works; it never "authenticates" (asks the user
> for their password) so it can't move the files to the correct place.
> The installer.log mentions a bunch of "permission denied" errors and
> the install itself says "failed". It works without a problem on
> 10.6.8, 10.7, and 10.8.
>
> Is there some option that I need to use that is implied on the later OSes?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dave
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