March 2006 - Installer-dev - lists.apple.com

Re: Upgrade installer info?
by Peter Bierman 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com -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 11:17 AM -0800 3/1/06, Nathan Herring wrote: I can create a installer package for say the 1.0 version of my product suite. Beyond a few applications, there's a large number of supporting frameworks and files. Great. Now, I need to edit two of the largish applications for a 1.0.1 release. In the old days, we could use VISE and patch the two largish applications, probably using whatever binary diffing format they have. Is there any such process for the Apple Installer? Is there a way to patch rather than overwrite? Is creating the upgrade installer just a matter of having a sparse installation folder and archiving that, or are there other instructions? There isn't explicit support for this, but we're considering it for a future release. The workaround is pretty simple: just create a package that the installer won't realize is an 'upgrade' of your old package, and only put the modified files in the new package. That gives you a 'sparse' package, and the installer won't delete any of the missing files as long as it doesn't match your package to the older version by CFBundleID or package name. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Upgrade installer info?
by Nathan Herring 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcY9ZNMjcC3JeJxgQAuNtgikR8nt2Q== Thread-topic: Upgrade installer info? I can create a installer package for say the 1.0 version of my product suite. Beyond a few applications, there's a large number of supporting frameworks and files. Great. Now, I need to edit two of the largish applications for a 1.0.1 release. In the old days, we could use VISE and patch the two largish applications, probably using whatever binary diffing format they have. Is there any such process for the Apple Installer? Is there a way to patch rather than overwrite? Is creating the upgrade installer just a matter of having a sparse installation folder and archiving that, or are there other instructions? It's clear I can make an entire 1.0.1 installer package (in much the same way I would have created the 1.0 installer package), internet downloads, obviously I want to keep the package size down. Pointers to documentation or just general pointers would be handy. -nh P.S. Installing a patch file and then patching as a postinstall action seems a little odd. :) _______________________________________________ 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: Installer background - custom size
by Julian Devlin 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

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Re: Automating PackageMaker CLI with Preserve Resource Forks option
by Julian Devlin 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

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Re: Leopard installer: are we adding shared information storage?
by Christopher Ryan 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

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Leopard installer: are we adding shared information storage?
by Bill Coderre 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

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