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Re: Adding Login Items
by Alexander von Below 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Alex Am 30.04.2006 um 17:13 schrieb Tim michals: There are several posts about using the 'LoginItemAPI' sample code. Also there is a project LogItemsAE, this is a carbon application but I want to use a postinstall script in packagemaker, what is the best way to do this? Also, there is a way to update the login in script process, but is this dangerous if just wanting to add a simple app at start up? There is a simple command, sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook <script> how would you remove the script if you wanted to uninstall? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.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/below%40mac.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.… You can use any application (such as a carbon shell tool) as a postflight script. There you can use LoginItemsAE nicely This email sent to below(a)mac.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Adding Login Items
by Tim michals 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=eI0Bq8Z0a5HHJIbeZyblcc5LYWMnZv5Bf5mzPcneQa+D9pTjvPtSbiIRvCSNO+GobiJkNNaW12A+u3nl8CdDZgZU6zSSJnL9Piu1IIfjz3EHNG0tl3SAlfYVn9KFlVm2MGxNa4yn357/K0H1d0pZBYVf+BVOhnr4i5o4m+PkrnA= ; There are several posts about using the 'LoginItemAPI' sample code. Also there is a project LogItemsAE, this is a carbon application but I want to use a postinstall script in packagemaker, what is the best way to do this? Also, there is a way to update the login in script process, but is this dangerous if just wanting to add a simple app at start up? There is a simple command, sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook <script> how would you remove the script if you wanted to uninstall? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.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.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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packagemaker, command line and relative paths.
by Josef Andrysek 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi all, I found some discussions about imposibility of command line building of a .pmproj file containing project relative paths, but did not find any hints how to solve it at least partially. Maybe we could create a symbolik link for the project directory and use absolute paths in the GUI projects. The building script then first has to re-create the symbolic link to point into the correct directory and than could run the packagemaker. Does have anybody a better solution? Thanks Jose _______________________________________________ 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: Distribution Packages
by Christopher Ryan 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Keith, Thanks, Chris Chris, Yes, I have that there. I know that works, because if I change the .dist file to something like: <choice id="choice2" title="PVTRANS" description="PV Trans stuff" tooltip="PV Translators" customLocationAllowAlternateVolumes="yes" customLocation="/junk" start_selected="true" start_enabled="true" start_visible="true"> <pkg-ref id="ident.pkg.PVTRANS"></pkg-ref> </choice> Then it will install the package to the /junk location, so I know that the .dist file will override the individual package location. Keith -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Ryan [mailto:ryanc@apple.com] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 4:13 PM To: Hafen, Keith Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Distribution Packages Do you have <key>IFPkgFlagRelocatable</key> <true/> In the Packages Info.plists? Chris Chris, Thanks for the suggestion, but I changed the .dist file to have: <options allow-external-scripts="no" customLocation="/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0" customize="allow"> </options> ... <choice id="choice2" title="PVTRANS" description="PV Trans stuff" tooltip="PV Translators" customLocationAllowAlternateVolumes="yes" start_selected="true" start_enabled="true" start_visible="true"> <pkg-ref id="ident.pkg.PVTRANS"></pkg-ref> </choice> And even if I select an alternate location the package still goes to the default /Applications/UGS/NX 4.0. Now each package has an Info.plist file, and in there I am setting: <key>IFPkgFlagDefaultLocation</key> <string>/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0</string> Is it somehow taking that instead of the option at the top level? Keith Hafen UGS -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Ryan [mailto:ryanc@apple.com] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 2:30 PM To: Hafen, Keith Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Distribution Packages If you don't put them in the choice, then they will inherit the overall selection. You don't need them in the choice, as long as the package is relocatable, every package will be relocated to that location. Putting them in the choice makes it so the user can change them in the Custom Select panel. Chris We are trying to create a distribution package for our product. One thing we need to do is to allow the customer to select one custom location, and have all the packages installed under that location. We have set up the .dist file to prompt for the install location in the <options>, however it doesn't pass that location on to the subpackages. In the .dist file we have: <options allow-external-scripts="no" customLocation="/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0" customize="allow"> </options> and in each subpackage, there is a section like: <choice id="choice1" title="UGFLEXLM" customLocation="/Application/UGS/NX4" description="NX Flex stuff" tooltip="Flex licensing" start_selected="true" start_enabled="true" start_visible="true"> <pkg-ref id="ident.pkg.UGFLEXLM"></pkg-ref> </choice> How do we get the subpackage to use the customLocation that the user selected from the UI as part of the <options> section? Keith Hafen _______________________________________________ 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.… Unfortunately, it looks like a bug in Distributions on Tiger. I will file a bug internally to fix it, but I would appreciate if you filed a bug as well to track it. This email sent to ryanc(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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RE: Distribution Packages
by Hafen, Keith 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcZn9KTAJgeoZnOtTTmOLe6vDv26gAAAA3Rg Thread-topic: Distribution Packages Chris, Yes, I have that there. I know that works, because if I change the .dist file to something like: <choice id="choice2" title="PVTRANS" description="PV Trans stuff" tooltip="PV Translators" customLocationAllowAlternateVolumes="yes" customLocation="/junk" start_selected="true" start_enabled="true" start_visible="true"> <pkg-ref id="ident.pkg.PVTRANS"></pkg-ref> </choice> Then it will install the package to the /junk location, so I know that the .dist file will override the individual package location. Keith -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Ryan [mailto:ryanc@apple.com] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 4:13 PM To: Hafen, Keith Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Distribution Packages Do you have <key>IFPkgFlagRelocatable</key> <true/> In the Packages Info.plists? Chris > Chris, > > Thanks for the suggestion, but I changed the .dist file to have: > <options > allow-external-scripts="no" > customLocation="/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0" > customize="allow"> > </options> > ... > <choice > id="choice2" > title="PVTRANS" > description="PV Trans stuff" > tooltip="PV Translators" > customLocationAllowAlternateVolumes="yes" > start_selected="true" > start_enabled="true" > start_visible="true"> > <pkg-ref id="ident.pkg.PVTRANS"></pkg-ref> > </choice> > > And even if I select an alternate location the package still goes to > the > default /Applications/UGS/NX 4.0. Now each package has an Info.plist > file, and in there I am setting: > > <key>IFPkgFlagDefaultLocation</key> > <string>/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0</string> > > Is it somehow taking that instead of the option at the top level? > > Keith Hafen > UGS > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Ryan [mailto:ryanc@apple.com] > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 2:30 PM > To: Hafen, Keith > Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com > Subject: Re: Distribution Packages > > If you don't put them in the choice, then they will inherit the > overall selection. You don't need them in the choice, as long as the > package is relocatable, every package will be relocated to that > location. Putting them in the choice makes it so the user can change > them in the Custom Select panel. > > Chris > > >> >> We are trying to create a distribution package for our product. One >> thing we need to do is to allow the customer to select one custom >> location, and have all the packages installed under that location. >> We >> have set up the .dist file to prompt for the install location in the >> <options>, however it doesn't pass that location on to the >> subpackages. >> >> In the .dist file we have: >> >> <options >> allow-external-scripts="no" >> customLocation="/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0" >> customize="allow"> >> </options> >> >> >> and in each subpackage, there is a section like: >> >> >> <choice >> id="choice1" >> title="UGFLEXLM" >> customLocation="/Application/UGS/NX4" >> description="NX Flex stuff" >> tooltip="Flex licensing" >> start_selected="true" >> start_enabled="true" >> start_visible="true"> >> <pkg-ref id="ident.pkg.UGFLEXLM"></pkg-ref> >> </choice> >> >> How do we get the subpackage to use the customLocation that the user >> selected from the UI as part of the <options> section? >> >> Keith Hafen >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ 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: Distribution Packages
by Christopher Ryan 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Do you have <key>IFPkgFlagRelocatable</key> <true/> In the Packages Info.plists? Chris Chris, Thanks for the suggestion, but I changed the .dist file to have: <options allow-external-scripts="no" customLocation="/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0" customize="allow"> </options> ... <choice id="choice2" title="PVTRANS" description="PV Trans stuff" tooltip="PV Translators" customLocationAllowAlternateVolumes="yes" start_selected="true" start_enabled="true" start_visible="true"> <pkg-ref id="ident.pkg.PVTRANS"></pkg-ref> </choice> <key>IFPkgFlagDefaultLocation</key> <string>/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0</string> Is it somehow taking that instead of the option at the top level? Keith Hafen UGS -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Ryan [mailto:ryanc@apple.com] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 2:30 PM To: Hafen, Keith Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Distribution Packages If you don't put them in the choice, then they will inherit the overall selection. You don't need them in the choice, as long as the package is relocatable, every package will be relocated to that location. Putting them in the choice makes it so the user can change them in the Custom Select panel. Chris In the .dist file we have: <options allow-external-scripts="no" customLocation="/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0" customize="allow"> </options> and in each subpackage, there is a section like: <choice id="choice1" title="UGFLEXLM" customLocation="/Application/UGS/NX4" description="NX Flex stuff" tooltip="Flex licensing" start_selected="true" start_enabled="true" start_visible="true"> <pkg-ref id="ident.pkg.UGFLEXLM"></pkg-ref> </choice> How do we get the subpackage to use the customLocation that the user selected from the UI as part of the <options> section? Keith Hafen _______________________________________________ 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.… And even if I select an alternate location the package still goes to the default /Applications/UGS/NX 4.0. Now each package has an Info.plist file, and in there I am setting: We are trying to create a distribution package for our product. One thing we need to do is to allow the customer to select one custom location, and have all the packages installed under that location. We have set up the .dist file to prompt for the install location in the <options>, however it doesn't pass that location on to the subpackages. _______________________________________________ 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: Distribution Packages
by Hafen, Keith 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcZn5lvC5nLpk2UNRKGEiSs9DS9N5wACqB6Q Thread-topic: Distribution Packages Chris, Thanks for the suggestion, but I changed the .dist file to have: <options allow-external-scripts="no" customLocation="/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0" customize="allow"> </options> ... <choice id="choice2" title="PVTRANS" description="PV Trans stuff" tooltip="PV Translators" customLocationAllowAlternateVolumes="yes" start_selected="true" start_enabled="true" start_visible="true"> <pkg-ref id="ident.pkg.PVTRANS"></pkg-ref> </choice> And even if I select an alternate location the package still goes to the default /Applications/UGS/NX 4.0. Now each package has an Info.plist file, and in there I am setting: <key>IFPkgFlagDefaultLocation</key> <string>/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0</string> Is it somehow taking that instead of the option at the top level? Keith Hafen UGS -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Ryan [mailto:ryanc@apple.com] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 2:30 PM To: Hafen, Keith Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Distribution Packages If you don't put them in the choice, then they will inherit the overall selection. You don't need them in the choice, as long as the package is relocatable, every package will be relocated to that location. Putting them in the choice makes it so the user can change them in the Custom Select panel. Chris > > We are trying to create a distribution package for our product. One > thing we need to do is to allow the customer to select one custom > location, and have all the packages installed under that location. We > have set up the .dist file to prompt for the install location in the > <options>, however it doesn't pass that location on to the > subpackages. > > In the .dist file we have: > > <options > allow-external-scripts="no" > customLocation="/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0" > customize="allow"> > </options> > > > and in each subpackage, there is a section like: > > > <choice > id="choice1" > title="UGFLEXLM" > customLocation="/Application/UGS/NX4" > description="NX Flex stuff" > tooltip="Flex licensing" > start_selected="true" > start_enabled="true" > start_visible="true"> > <pkg-ref id="ident.pkg.UGFLEXLM"></pkg-ref> > </choice> > > How do we get the subpackage to use the customLocation that the user > selected from the UI as part of the <options> section? > > Keith Hafen > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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: Distribution Packages
by Christopher Ryan 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Chris In the .dist file we have: <options allow-external-scripts="no" customLocation="/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0" customize="allow"> </options> and in each subpackage, there is a section like: <choice id="choice1" title="UGFLEXLM" customLocation="/Application/UGS/NX4" description="NX Flex stuff" tooltip="Flex licensing" start_selected="true" start_enabled="true" start_visible="true"> <pkg-ref id="ident.pkg.UGFLEXLM"></pkg-ref> </choice> How do we get the subpackage to use the customLocation that the user selected from the UI as part of the <options> section? Keith Hafen _______________________________________________ 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.… If you don't put them in the choice, then they will inherit the overall selection. You don't need them in the choice, as long as the package is relocatable, every package will be relocated to that location. Putting them in the choice makes it so the user can change them in the Custom Select panel. We are trying to create a distribution package for our product. One thing we need to do is to allow the customer to select one custom location, and have all the packages installed under that location. We have set up the .dist file to prompt for the install location in the <options>, however it doesn't pass that location on to the subpackages. This email sent to ryanc(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Distribution Packages
by Hafen, Keith 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcZkDWLVVutur2ueTXyVlUHuLke05gBd4hlwAI8AXIAACCqj0A== Thread-topic: Distribution Packages We are trying to create a distribution package for our product. One thing we need to do is to allow the customer to select one custom location, and have all the packages installed under that location. We have set up the .dist file to prompt for the install location in the <options>, however it doesn't pass that location on to the subpackages. In the .dist file we have: <options allow-external-scripts="no" customLocation="/Applications/UGS/NX 4.0" customize="allow"> </options> and in each subpackage, there is a section like: <choice id="choice1" title="UGFLEXLM" customLocation="/Application/UGS/NX4" description="NX Flex stuff" tooltip="Flex licensing" start_selected="true" start_enabled="true" start_visible="true"> <pkg-ref id="ident.pkg.UGFLEXLM"></pkg-ref> </choice> How do we get the subpackage to use the customLocation that the user selected from the UI as part of the <options> section? Keith Hafen _______________________________________________ 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: Question about uninstalling...
by Peter Bierman 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Is there any way to make add a "remove" option to the standard package manager / installer? No, not yet. -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 1:16 PM -0700 4/21/06, Chas Spillar wrote: This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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