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Package installation
by Kathy Gach 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcZDzbpT+RuyyK/AEdq30gAKldA3xA== Thread-topic: Package installation User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.1.051004 I'm using a program called Iceberg v1.1.6 to make installation packages. I make my package just fine, and the package installs just fine. The problem is when I launch the application that the package installed It asks for a serial number. Is there a way I can build a package Where when I install it, the serial number is integrated into the package? I'm very new at making packages, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much Kathy Gach _______________________________________________ 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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installation package not working for 10.1 and 10.2
by George Liu 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcZDyyQwz73MIzwjShCt4lkpBDZK4g== Thread-topic: installation package not working for 10.1 and 10.2 _______________________________________________ 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: IFPkgFlagInstalledSize not working on OS X < 10.4?
by Stéphane Sudre 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On jeudi, mars 9, 2006, at 12:36 AM, Rob Hudson wrote: On vendredi, mars 3, 2006, at 05:54 PM, Rob Hudson wrote: Hello, Stupid idea of the day: 1. Create a package A with the media content. 2. Create a package B installing nothing. 4. Add your postflight script in package A. The quick test I made on 10.2.8 tend to prove it just works. Probably. I don't have a 10.3 system so I can't test. _______________________________________________ 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.… On Mar 3, 2006, at 2:18 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: We are creating an installer for an educational program and are having some trouble. Our installer works fine on 10.4, but when we test it on 10.2 or 10.3 it is not displaying the correct size that we put into the Info.plist file for key "IFPkgFlagInstalledSize". Is this key supported on older OS X platforms? If so, where else can we look to correct this? Some more information: We are attempting to create a hybrid install on the same CD for both Mac and Windows. Since this program contains media content and is large, if we package the media content in the installer for both platforms it will not fit on a single CD. We are using a postflight script to copy the media files to the selected destination. On the Windows side, we are using NSIS installer and doing effectively the same thing. The short version is that the media content is not in the .pkg directory, but in a directory at the root level of the CD. Does the Mac installer try to calculate the size itself, and thus the media content isn't part of the calculation? Thanks for any guidance and help. 3. Take the Archive.pax[.gz] file from package B and use it to replace the one in package A. 5. Now you can run an installation of package A. The installer is looking at the .bom to know how big is the installed media. And when the installation runs, it's not installing anything from the Archive.pax.gz. So your postflight script can just do its stuff. My $0.02 In testing, we found that this isn't working on 10.3. We get the following error during install: [snip] Mar 8 15:03:43 : Running task: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Installation.framework/Resources/pax Mar 8 15:03:46 : ERROR:Could not write file. - pax: WARNING! These patterns were not matched: - [snip] Mar 8 15:03:49 : Install Failed Mar 8 15:03:49 : Error detected Mar 8 15:03:49 : Name: NSGenericException Mar 8 15:03:49 : Reason: Some files for Sizes A may not have been written correctly. (code 1) Mar 8 15:03:49 : Aborted install. [snip] Could this be related to the Archive.pax.gz file? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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package error when creating
by Perbix, Michael 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcZDqTT+q6ywJ7HySp+IZSYUKJ3Qgw== Thread-topic: package error when creating Using packagemaker (both GUI and Terminal) I am trying to take a folder in my Applications folder that contains a Mactomedia Director application and associated files and folders (about 2 Gig worth) When I do it without the "preserve resource fork" option it works, but the app is useless since the icon is plain icon, and OSX got no idea what to do with the file. As soon as I use the split resource option, I get errors from both the GUI and the terminal. Here is the terminal output Scanning Package Root Preserving File Resources An error occurred while creating the AppleDouble file for credits.htm (File with that name already exists) Could not split /packagetmp/PackageMakerBuild1141928992 Removing Temporary Build Directory The package could not be created because of the following errors: Could not preserve resources in root: "/packagetmp/PackageMakerBuild1141928992". Here is my command line /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/PackageMaker -build -p ~/Desktop/expresate.pkg -f /Applications/Expresate/ -i /Users/itgroup/Desktop/Info.plist -d /Users/itgroup/Desktop/Description.plist -v -s -b /packagetmp -ds I am logged in as root presently, but also tried as user itgroup. I never get to the point where it pulls in the 2 plist files since it gets the error at the resource fork stage. I have also tried Iceberg with no results. I usually use Iceberg first unless I come upon a package it doesn' work with. I usually see this with packages with Classic stuff, as well as Directory files. Iceberg just sits there forever looking like it is doing something, but never gets done. I get the same error message from PackageMaker GUI and Terminal as noted above. am I missing something here? Here is an LS of the directory I am attemping to get total 6664 drwxrwxr-x 9 itgroup admin 306 Mar 9 13:12 . drwxrwxr-x 136 root admin 4624 Mar 9 12:57 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 itgroup admin 6148 Mar 9 12:59 .DS_Store drwxrwxr-x 23 itgroup admin 782 Mar 9 12:57 CNFG -rw-r--r-- 1 itgroup admin 3128720 Aug 25 2004 Expresate drwxrwxr-x 12 itgroup admin 408 Mar 9 12:57 code drwxrwxr-x 8 itgroup admin 272 Mar 8 11:30 data drwxrwxrwt 6 itgroup admin 204 Mar 8 11:38 tmsdata drwxrwxr-x 11 itgroup admin 374 Mar 8 11:36 xtras ------------------------------------------ Michael Perbix Lower Merion School District Telecommunications Specialist PH (610) 645-1964 Fax (610) 896-2019 _______________________________________________ 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: Apple Installer - How to Customize "Easy Install" description?
by Joska Andrýsek 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Mar 8, 2006, at 11:26 PM, Christopher Ryan wrote: Chris Thanks anyway. On mercredi, mars 8, 2006, at 12:15 AM, Joska Andrýsek 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.… I'm trying to inform them what will be installed if they will not customize the installation. So you are just trying to inform them that they could customize the installation by pressing the Customize button? Unfortunately, I wanted to inform the user before start of the installation, so that he can customize what to install. I'll give a note into readme and that will be OK. Hi, please is it possible to change the default informational text shown in the "easy install" pane of the installer? It contains "Click Install to perform a basic installation of this software ....". I want to display more specific information, but I did not find how to do it. I think it is not possible, but maybe someone knows how to do it. Could a separate window launch at the start of the real installation process be OK? In that case, you could use the preflight script to launch a helper app which will display your dialog (using the CFUserNofification API for instance). _______________________________________________ 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/ryanc% 40apple.com This email sent to ryanc(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: IFPkgFlagInstalledSize not working on OS X < 10.4?
by Rob Hudson 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On vendredi, mars 3, 2006, at 05:54 PM, Rob Hudson wrote: Hello, Stupid idea of the day: 1. Create a package A with the media content. 2. Create a package B installing nothing. 4. Add your postflight script in package A. The quick test I made on 10.2.8 tend to prove it just works. Could this be related to the Archive.pax.gz file? Thanks, Rob -- Rob Hudson <rhudson(a)orcasinc.com> Senior Programmer Oregon Center for Applied Science http://www.orcasinc.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.… On Mar 3, 2006, at 2:18 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: We are creating an installer for an educational program and are having some trouble. Our installer works fine on 10.4, but when we test it on 10.2 or 10.3 it is not displaying the correct size that we put into the Info.plist file for key "IFPkgFlagInstalledSize". Is this key supported on older OS X platforms? If so, where else can we look to correct this? Some more information: We are attempting to create a hybrid install on the same CD for both Mac and Windows. Since this program contains media content and is large, if we package the media content in the installer for both platforms it will not fit on a single CD. We are using a postflight script to copy the media files to the selected destination. On the Windows side, we are using NSIS installer and doing effectively the same thing. The short version is that the media content is not in the .pkg directory, but in a directory at the root level of the CD. Does the Mac installer try to calculate the size itself, and thus the media content isn't part of the calculation? Thanks for any guidance and help. 3. Take the Archive.pax[.gz] file from package B and use it to replace the one in package A. 5. Now you can run an installation of package A. The installer is looking at the .bom to know how big is the installed media. And when the installation runs, it's not installing anything from the Archive.pax.gz. So your postflight script can just do its stuff. My $0.02 In testing, we found that this isn't working on 10.3. We get the following error during install: [snip] Mar 8 15:03:43 : Running task: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ Installation.framework/Resources/pax Mar 8 15:03:46 : ERROR:Could not write file. - pax: WARNING! These patterns were not matched: - [snip] Mar 8 15:03:49 : Install Failed Mar 8 15:03:49 : Error detected Mar 8 15:03:49 : Name: NSGenericException Mar 8 15:03:49 : Reason: Some files for Sizes A may not have been written correctly. (code 1) Mar 8 15:03:49 : Aborted install. [snip] This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Apple Installer - How to Customize "Easy Install" description?
by Christopher Ryan 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Chris Thanks anyway. On mercredi, mars 8, 2006, at 12:15 AM, Joska Andrýsek 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/ryanc%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.… So you are just trying to inform them that they could customize the installation by pressing the Customize button? Unfortunately, I wanted to inform the user before start of the installation, so that he can customize what to install. I'll give a note into readme and that will be OK. Hi, please is it possible to change the default informational text shown in the "easy install" pane of the installer? It contains "Click Install to perform a basic installation of this software ....". I want to display more specific information, but I did not find how to do it. I think it is not possible, but maybe someone knows how to do it. Could a separate window launch at the start of the real installation process be OK? In that case, you could use the preflight script to launch a helper app which will display your dialog (using the CFUserNofification API for instance). This email sent to ryanc(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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high-ASCII in short user name?
by Chuck Soper 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello, At this point I'm just trying to eliminate all the possibilities. Thanks, 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.… I'm dealing with an installation issue that may be related to the user having high-ASCII characters in their short name. Does anyone know if this is possible? With 10.4.5, System Preferences will not allow me to create a user account with high-ASCII in the short name. Does anyone know if this was possible in earlier system versions? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Apple Installer - How to Customize "Easy Install" description?
by Joska Andrýsek 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thanks anyway. On mercredi, mars 8, 2006, at 12:15 AM, Joska Andrýsek 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.… Unfortunately, I wanted to inform the user before start of the installation, so that he can customize what to install. I'll give a note into readme and that will be OK. Hi, please is it possible to change the default informational text shown in the "easy install" pane of the installer? It contains "Click Install to perform a basic installation of this software ....". I want to display more specific information, but I did not find how to do it. I think it is not possible, but maybe someone knows how to do it. Could a separate window launch at the start of the real installation process be OK? In that case, you could use the preflight script to launch a helper app which will display your dialog (using the CFUserNofification API for instance). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Apple Installer - How to Customize "Easy Install" description?
by Stéphane Sudre 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On mercredi, mars 8, 2006, at 12:15 AM, Joska Andrýsek 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.… Hi, please is it possible to change the default informational text shown in the "easy install" pane of the installer? It contains "Click Install to perform a basic installation of this software ....". I want to display more specific information, but I did not find how to do it. I think it is not possible, but maybe someone knows how to do it. Could a separate window launch at the start of the real installation process be OK? In that case, you could use the preflight script to launch a helper app which will display your dialog (using the CFUserNofification API for instance). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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