On Nov 2, 2015, at 4:10 AM, Paul Grathwohl < email@hidden> wrote:
Hello,
in our installers we allow users to
customize (via the "customize" installer pane) the installation
path for big content files, so that they can put them e.g. on a second
disk.
What we see now, is that during installation
a folder "/Library/Receipts/" is created on that other disk and
the receipts (bom and plist) for the releated pkgs are put there, and not
on the startup disk.
This receipts path is then visible to
the user and is irritating for him.
This is normal and correct behavior. Consider the example of booting from an external drive and installing packages to the internal startup drive. Now you shut down, disconnect the external drive, and start up from the internal disk. The receipts for the installed packages are now available to the currently booted OS, as they should be.
Second effect: When installing another
version of the involved pkgs the installer doesn't know about these receipts
(because it seems to look for them only on the startup disk). Due to that
upgrade/downgrade checks can't be made correctly.
Does the install behave properly when the upgrade is also directed to the same disk as the original install? It should. If it doesn’t, that would seem to be a bug. It can be a new install on some connected volumes and an upgrade install on others.
Is there something we can do, so that
the receipts get placed on the startup disk? Or is there a general misunderstanding
on our side how this is supposed to work?
I think the latter. More technical info:We are using flat distribution installers.
In the choice configuration in the distribution file we use settings like
this:<choice customLocation='/Library/Application
Support/...' customLocationAllowAlternateVolumes='yes' ...><pkg-ref id='...'/></choice>Thank you,Paul
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