December 2006 - Installer-dev

Re: Need to use 'sudo' in an installer script
by Bill Coderre 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

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Re: Need to use 'sudo' in an installer script
by John Daniel 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

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Need to use 'sudo' in an installer script
by Brian Weitzner 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

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More permissions questions
by John Daniel 17 Dec '06

17 Dec '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Still, why the difference? How come he is in 'staff' while I am not. Thanks, John _______________________________________________ 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.… OK, I have another interesting permissions question. On my machine, with a fairly standard setup, my userid is jdaniel and I am a member of the following groups: jdaniel appserveradm appserverusr procmod admin. My wife's account is the same. Both accounts are identical on three machines. I have a user who is having trouble with an installer. His user id is paulquin and he is a member of groups: staff and admin. He has 10.4.8 like me. He may have installed differently than me via Archive and Install, for example - I don't know. How come I am in a group having the same name as my user id, while he is not? What should the ownership of a user-installed application look like? Apple's apps are owned by root:admin. All my apps are owned by jdaniel:jdaniel. Should my 3rd party apps be jdaniel:admin, for example? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Fwd: need help on creating distribution project
by Peter Bierman 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com -pmb Thanks, Jin Begin forwarded message: From: Jin Lin <<mailto:jylin77@speakeasy.net>jylin77(a)speakeasy.net> Date: December 15, 2006 1:55:15 AM EST To: <mailto:installer-dev@lists.apple.com>installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: need help on creating distribution project Hello, function checkSystemversion() { var result = false; try { result = my.target.systemVersion.ProductVersion >= '10.4'; } catch (e) {} if(!result) { my.result.type = 'Fatal'; my.result.title = ''; my.result.message = ''; } return result; } Any help or suggestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks Jin _______________________________________________ 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/bierman%40apple.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.… The installation check doesn't have a 'my.target' available, since it runs before the user picks a volume. At 2:02 AM -0500 12/15/06, Jin Lin wrote: I just found out that if I use that function as volume check script, then it works. I like to know if this is a bug or a feature? I am creating a distribution package with an installation check script ( checkSystemversion() - the one supplied by Package Maker). I tried the package on both PPC and Intel mac running 10.4.8, and I noticed that the value of result always set to false and generates error message. Is it a bug or did I do something wrong? This email sent to bierman(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Fwd: need help on creating distribution project
by Jin Lin 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

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need help on creating distribution project
by Jin Lin 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello, function checkSystemversion() { var result = false; try { result = my.target.systemVersion.ProductVersion >= '10.4'; } catch (e) {} if(!result) { my.result.type = 'Fatal'; my.result.title = ''; my.result.message = ''; } return result; } Any help or suggestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks Jin _______________________________________________ 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 am creating a distribution package with an installation check script ( checkSystemversion() - the one supplied by Package Maker). I tried the package on both PPC and Intel mac running 10.4.8, and I noticed that the value of result always set to false and generates error message. Is it a bug or did I do something wrong? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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RE: Different runtime Installer behavior for same package
by Alex Sheh 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AccfykuOo3fnG4l7QC+zebDIMlHG2wAA4THQ Thread-topic: Different runtime Installer behavior for same package I also thought that the MetaPackage might not do authorization and instead defer to the included Packages. However, I built a MetaPackage with NoAuthorization (couldn't find out how to adjust the authorization in the project GUI), that includes packages with RootAuthorization, and I get Installer log warnings about NoAuthorization being promoted to RootAuthorization for the MetaPackage. I don't know how to adjust the authorization from the MetaPackage project GUI, and I'm reluctant to manually hack keys unless I find out that this is the suggested workaround. Also, I'm not able to use Distributions, since there is a "Missing identifier field for SubPackage.pkg" bug preventing me from building Distributions via the command line (see below thread). http://lists.apple.com/archives/Installer-dev/2006/Sep/msg00057.html Thanks, Alex -----Original Message----- From: Stéphane Sudre [mailto:ssudre2@wanadoo.fr] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:48 PM To: Alex Sheh Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Different runtime Installer behavior for same package On jeudi, décembre 14, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Alex Sheh wrote: > Hi all, > When I run my MetaPackage on my system with Installer Version 2.1.5 > (94), my Installer Log shows different errors/warnings than on another > developer's system. The differences are below. > > 1) MetaPackage and SubPackages use AdminAuthorization but postflight > script runs sudo command. > - my system: Installer automatically promotes Metapackage from > Admin to RootAuthorization and logs a warning. I've seen this one (but I don't remember the OS version or platform). What looks strange is that, AFAIK, a metapackage does not deal with the authorization but determines which one is required from the packages it includes. But maybe this has changed with Distribution list. _______________________________________________ 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: Different runtime Installer behavior for same package
by Stéphane Sudre 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On jeudi, décembre 14, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Alex Sheh wrote: I've seen this one (but I don't remember the OS version or platform). _______________________________________________ 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.… Hi all, When I run my MetaPackage on my system with Installer Version 2.1.5 (94), my Installer Log shows different errors/warnings than on another developer’s system. The differences are below. 1) MetaPackage and SubPackages use AdminAuthorization but postflight script runs sudo command. - my system: Installer automatically promotes Metapackage from Admin to RootAuthorization and logs a warning. What looks strange is that, AFAIK, a metapackage does not deal with the authorization but determines which one is required from the packages it includes. But maybe this has changed with Distribution list. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Installer Marking Unrelated Files as Obsolete
by Peter Bierman 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com We deploy software to clients with single packages via ARD 3. All clients are running 10.4.8 on a mix of PPC and Intel Mac's. In the past week we have noticed that the Microsoft Office 2004 directory (in /Applications) is being marked as obsolete by installer when either our Adobe CS 2 package or our KeyServer 2 packaged is being pushed (we've seen either one package or the other trigger the obsoleted remarks in install.log). What's more interesting is that this is not happening to every computer receiving packages; right now the count is 5 Mac's (mix of PPC and Intel). Even though most of Office can not be deleted ("directory not empty") the Office directory is gone as are the applications, and we have to push the package again. I have looked at both the Adobe and KeyServer packages in PackageMaker and in Pacifist and neither show any reference to Office at all. Can anyone think of a reason why this might be happening? Do the package names _or_ bundle IDs of any of the affected packages match? -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 4:30 PM -0500 12/14/06, Matt Willmore wrote: This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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