2 annoying issues in Installer.app in macOS 10.14.6
2 annoying issues in Installer.app in macOS 10.14.6
- Subject: 2 annoying issues in Installer.app in macOS 10.14.6
- From: Stephane Sudre via Installer-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:09:27 +0200
I'm seeing 2 annoying issues in Installer.app in macOS 10.14.6 that do
not seem to be the "expected or designed behavior":
o Installer complains about Package Authoring Errors:
"Installer[881]: Package Authoring Error: <background_scaling> has an
unsupported MIME type: X-NSObject/NSNumber"
The issue is that there are no background elements inside the
installer-gui-script element of this distribution. Which is perfectly
OK according to the official documentation (*)
o In macOS 10.14.1, it is possible to have an external component
package that is hosted on a https server. You install the
distribution, the remote package referenced in the distribution gets
downloaded and everyone is happy (with the exception of the progress
bar in earlier OS versions).
In macOS 10.14.6, what I'm observing is Installer.app complaining that
the Package file is not supported by "PK" (probably PackageKit) after
the download has occurred.
Package file:///private/tmp/com.apple.installer.downloads.kCRu/xxxxxxxxxxx.pkg
not supported by PK
Unable to use PK session due to incompatible packages. Terminating.
Downloading and opening the package manually works fine.
Looking for this error via Google showed that this kind of issue
happened occasionally as early as 2017.
No plan to file bug reports since it's just a waste of time to file bug reports.
*
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/DistributionDefinitionRef/Chapters/Distribution_XML_Ref.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40005370-CH100-SW22
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