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Re: requirements
by Chuck Soper 07 May '05

07 May '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com vendredi 6 mai 2005, à 11:31 PM, Chuck Soper a écrit : Hello, Other ideas include: - /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist is missing - /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist permissions are wrong Chuck _______________________________________________ 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.… At 12:14 AM +0200 5/7/05, Stéphane Sudre wrote: I use the following requirements dictionary in my installer. This has worked fine for all of my users so far as well as my testing. I have one user that says he's using 10.4, but that the message in this requirements dictionary is being displayed and preventing him from installing. He even sent a screenshot. I asked him to confirm his version of the OS by selecting "About this Mac" from the Apple menu and he told me it said 10.4. I have no idea what to tell him. Is there anything wrong with the requirements dictionary below? I'm not sure what to tell him. AFAIk, the plist SpecType is ran against every Volume. So maybe the user has multiple partitions and the message is being displayed when he's trying to select a partition which does not have Tiger or later installed on it. Thanks for your response. I confirmed that the customer only has one volume. He even sent me a screenshot. I'm thinking of sending him a installer without the requirements dictionary. I'm afraid that having the requirement may prevent other users from installing and buying my software. Perhaps, I should remove the requirements dictionary from my installer entirely. Is it hurting more than helping? What do you think? I really wish that the PackageMaker application had a simple interface to specify at least the minimum OS version and that it worked reliably. The installer should be a developer's friend. It took a while to figure out how to add this requirements dictionary and the only thing it seems to have accomplished is to prevent potential customers from installing my demo software. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: requirements
by Stéphane Sudre 06 May '05

06 May '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com vendredi 6 mai 2005, à 11:31 PM, Chuck Soper a écrit : Hello, Other ideas include: - /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist is missing - /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist permissions are wrong _______________________________________________ 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.… I use the following requirements dictionary in my installer. This has worked fine for all of my users so far as well as my testing. I have one user that says he's using 10.4, but that the message in this requirements dictionary is being displayed and preventing him from installing. He even sent a screenshot. I asked him to confirm his version of the OS by selecting "About this Mac" from the Apple menu and he told me it said 10.4. I have no idea what to tell him. Is there anything wrong with the requirements dictionary below? I'm not sure what to tell him. AFAIk, the plist SpecType is ran against every Volume. So maybe the user has multiple partitions and the message is being displayed when he's trying to select a partition which does not have Tiger or later installed on it. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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requirements
by Chuck Soper 06 May '05

06 May '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello, Thanks, Chuck I use the following requirements dictionary in my installer. This has worked fine for all of my users so far as well as my testing. I have one user that says he's using 10.4, but that the message in this requirements dictionary is being displayed and preventing him from installing. He even sent a screenshot. I asked him to confirm his version of the OS by selecting "About this Mac" from the Apple menu and he told me it said 10.4. I have no idea what to tell him. Is there anything wrong with the requirements dictionary below? I'm not sure what to tell him. <key>IFRequirementDicts</key> <array> <dict> <key>LabelKey</key> <string>Mac OS X v10.4 or newer</string> <key>MessageKey</key> <string>You must upgrade to Mac OS X v10.4 before installing the VelaClock Widget.</string> <key>SpecArgument</key> <string>/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist</string> <key>SpecProperty</key> <string>ProductVersion</string> <key>SpecType</key> <string>plist</string> <key>TestObject</key> <string>10.4</string> <key>TestOperator</key> <string>>=</string> <key>TitleKey</key> <string>VelaClock cannot be installed because it requires Mac OS X v10.4 or newer.</string> </dict> _______________________________________________ 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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Internet-Enabled HTML readmes don't work in Tiger?
by Jonathan del Strother 04 May '05

04 May '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com I've been distributing my stuff in Internet-Enabled disk images, with HTML readme files. This seems to have stopped working in Tiger. If you try and open the readme from within the disk image, Safari complains that it can't open file://private/tmp/dmg.<blah>/ReadMe.htm It works fine if you copy the readme to the desktop, then open it. Presumably it's a permissions problem where Safari doesn't have access to the temporary mount point? Is this a feature or a bug? Jon _______________________________________________ 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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Re: meta-package created on 10.3 won't install on 10.2
by Matt DeFoor 03 May '05

03 May '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) At 11:07 AM -0400 5/3/05, Matt DeFoor wrote: Have you tried using root auth instead of admin? No. But I'll try that! Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ 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.… Peter Bierman wrote: I'm installing a folder and subsequent app into /Applications. I do ask for admin authentication. Not root. The only difference is _supposed_ to be that users in the admin group won't have to enter their password, but it wouldn't be the first time some other side effect crept in. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: meta-package created on 10.3 won't install on 10.2
by Peter Bierman 03 May '05

03 May '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Have you tried using root auth instead of admin? -pmb _______________________________________________ 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.… At 11:07 AM -0400 5/3/05, Matt DeFoor wrote: I'm installing a folder and subsequent app into /Applications. I do ask for admin authentication. Not root. The only difference is _supposed_ to be that users in the admin group won't have to enter their password, but it wouldn't be the first time some other side effect crept in. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: meta-package created on 10.3 won't install on 10.2
by Matt DeFoor 03 May '05

03 May '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) -Matt _______________________________________________ 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.… I'm installing a folder and subsequent app into /Applications. I do ask for admin authentication. Not root. Are you referring to the folders and files on the that make up the various packages of the meta-package? If so, I'll check the permissions on these and let you know. No, I was just referring to the permissions on the /Applications folder in your pax archive. I've seen installations failed because the permissions were not root:admin 775 on this folder. I've gone through several permissions checks for files/directories that are put into the smaller packages. For things that go into /Applications, I flagged them as root:admin 775 before making the package. Is it possible that the permissions need to be applied after the packages have been created? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: New Software Distribution documentation?
by Stéphane Sudre 01 May '05

01 May '05

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On dimanche, mai 1, 2005, at 01:50 AM, Peter Bierman wrote: _______________________________________________ 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.… Why is there a link to the release note, in the cell after this one and not in this one? I'm not sure where you mean for this... The first row in the "What's changed?" table does not have a hypertext link to the release notes documzent while the second row has one. Just a detail. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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