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: Dave Geering <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:55:48 +1300
Oh bugger, I knew that too -- that info was floating around in the
back of my mind in some form or another, but for some reason it didn't
occur to me that it won't work. I need to rethink this product's
distribution...
Thanks for the help.
On 3 January 2013 12:27, Greg Neagle <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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