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Installing files/folder in $HOME (a possible solution)
by Stéphane Sudre 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Juts found a solution to install files/folders in $HOME with a .pkg if: - you only install files/folder in $HOME and you don't want: I thought it might be interesting to share this solution. --------8<-----------8<----------- Launch PackageMaker or any other tool that can create .pkg: 1) Create a package with the following flags set: o Root Volume Only o Follow Flags o Overwrite directory permissions (Off or On) (I tried it with On). 2) Create your file hierarchy on disk or in the other tool like this: Then create the Library, Pictures, Movies, etc... folder as you wish. 3) Create the following pretty complex preflight script: #!/bin/sh ln -s $HOME /private/tmp/A_SUPER_UNIQUE_NAME_YOU_SELECTED exit 0 5) Run (and test?) Hope it can be useful to others _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… - any user interaction (as in: the user has to select his/her home folder) The folder /private/tmp/A_SUPER_UNIQUE_NAME_YOU_SELECTED/ will be the default location for the installation I set the file owner and group to root:admin for the files/folder within A_SUPER_UNIQUE_NAME_YOU_SELECTED. The final files are current_user_id:20 after installation on my 10.2.8 machine. 4) Build your package with either Command + K or Command +B depending on the tool. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Iceberg and relative installation paths
by Greg Fisher 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 Thanks Stephane, I will look into those workarounds. Greg Stéphane Sudre wrote: On mardi, mars 15, 2005, at 08:49 PM, Greg Fisher wrote: This is not a feature supported by Installer.app AFAIK. There are some workaround as: or My $0.02 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… Within our Metapackage, we have a package that we want to be installed within the users "home" folder . . . such as /users/username. Since that folder name will depend on who the current user is, we must use a relative path for the destination . . . such as "~/". But there doesn't seem to be a way to insert such a location as the default path or as the relative path. If we have to use the Chooser, we are limited to the existing folders. What are we missing? In PackageMaker, you can set the default location to be ~/ but it's not going to work with Installer.app. - using a relocatable package, not asking for any authentication permissions and letting the user select his/her home folder - installing stuff in /tmp/ and then copying them back to the $HOME folder via a postflight script (since the script is run with the current user id, there's hope $HOME points to the correct folder). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Iceberg and relative installation paths
by Stéphane Sudre 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On mardi, mars 15, 2005, at 08:49 PM, Greg Fisher wrote: This is not a feature supported by Installer.app AFAIK. There are some workaround as: or My $0.02 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… Within our Metapackage, we have a package that we want to be installed within the users "home" folder . . . such as /users/username. Since that folder name will depend on who the current user is, we must use a relative path for the destination . . . such as "~/". But there doesn't seem to be a way to insert such a location as the default path or as the relative path. If we have to use the Chooser, we are limited to the existing folders. What are we missing? In PackageMaker, you can set the default location to be ~/ but it's not going to work with Installer.app. - using a relocatable package, not asking for any authentication permissions and letting the user select his/her home folder - installing stuff in /tmp/ and then copying them back to the $HOME folder via a postflight script (since the script is run with the current user id, there's hope $HOME points to the correct folder). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Iceberg and relative installation paths
by Greg Fisher 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 We are attempting to use the Iceberg enhancement of the Packager and have run into a challenge that I am hoping someone out there can help us with. Within our Metapackage, we have a package that we want to be installed within the users "home" folder . . . such as /users/username. Since that folder name will depend on who the current user is, we must use a relative path for the destination . . . such as "~/". But there doesn't seem to be a way to insert such a location as the default path or as the relative path. If we have to use the Chooser, we are limited to the existing folders. What are we missing? -- Greg Fisher Admin & Financial Info Systems Manager OCIO IS, Medical University of South Carolina _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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package_version?
by Stéphane Sudre 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… Is the "package_version" file used by recent releases of Installer.app or is it a file that is used for old version of Installer.app (the one where the .bom, .pax[.gz] and scripts were named after the name of the package)? The "package_version" is in the Resources folder of a .pkg (for instance in the CommonCriteriaTools.pkg). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Install/Update decision
by Christopher Ryan 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Chris Regards, Ryan _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… Is this a mpkg or a pkg? The thing is, the Installer ui will show upgrade if a receipt for any of the pkgs are part of a mpkg are on disk and being installed. If this is just a single pkg, are you sure you deleted the entire receipt for that package? You can do an experiment, temporarily rename /Library/Receipts for the target you are choosing to /Library/Receipts.off, does it still say upgrade? It shouldn't. Hello, How does the Apple installer go about deciding whether it is upgrading an existing installation or installing a new one? I am having trouble on one test machine where the installer says it is doing an upgrade but on which I have deleted everything that I install including the file in receipts. There is no problem on the other test machines. Only difference with this machine is that the OS X is installed on an external firewire drive. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Install/Update decision
by Ryan Cuprak 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… Hello, How does the Apple installer go about deciding whether it is upgrading an existing installation or installing a new one? I am having trouble on one test machine where the installer says it is doing an upgrade but on which I have deleted everything that I install including the file in receipts. There is no problem on the other test machines. Only difference with this machine is that the OS X is installed on an external firewire drive. Regards, Ryan This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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