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Re: What is the replacement for installer plugins?
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Re: What is the replacement for installer plugins?


  • Subject: Re: What is the replacement for installer plugins?
  • From: Greg Neagle <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:09:05 -0700

Certainly packages can declare the need for a restart after install: no need for plugins or undocumented features for that!

-Greg

> On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Stephane Sudre <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Not sure to see the connection between Installer Plugins and
> completing the installation process.
>
> If you were Apple, you could use the undocumented features of the
> Installation Packages to finish the installation after reboot.
>
> For the common people, post-installation scripts is usually the solution.
>
> If you need a reboot to complete the installation, maybe you are
> looking for some kernel extensions or launchd agents/daemons to be
> automatically launched. But this can be done in many cases from
> post-installation scripts with launchctl and its friends.
>
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Jim O'Connor <email@hidden> wrote:
>> My installer requires a reboot after installation.
>> In an ideal world that reboot would complete the installation process and there wouldn’t be any other “first run” behavior.
>> Is there a replacement for Installer Plugins?
>>
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