Re: Accessing PackageKit programmatically
Re: Accessing PackageKit programmatically
- Subject: Re: Accessing PackageKit programmatically
- From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:54:56 +0200
Hi Julian!
On 06/13/2016 06:48 PM, Julian Devlin wrote:
> We use the following, when testing from a Makefile:
> sudo installer -tgt / -pkg foo.pkg
>
> I don’t know how successful you might be in avoiding sudo…
The problem is that /usr/sbin/installer cannot be run from Objective-C code
without a very crude hack. You basically have to embed Apple Script into
your Objective-C code to be able to gain administrative privileges [1].
On Windows, there is the MSI library which has been part of Windows since
Windows 2000 and it provides a clean and canonical access to the installer
system [2]. Applications like Google Chrome use it to install their package
updates in silent mode.
I'm a bit surprised that Apple doesn't provide similar mechanisms.
Adrian
> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841937/authorizationexecutewithprivileges-is-deprecated
> [2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/Aa369426(v=vs.85).aspx
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