September 2006 - Installer-dev

Package Maker 'Missing identifier'
by Michael C. Silva 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Missing identifier field for "RosieConfigMgmtApps.pkg". Missing identifier field for "RosieApps.pkg". Missing identifier field for "RosieUnixUtils.pkg". Missing identifier field for "UIApps.pkg". Missing identifier field for "UIQCPlugins.pkg". Missing identifier field for "UIUnixUtils.pkg". Missing identifier field for "UIAppSupport.pkg". Missing identifier field for "RacePointOSFrameworks.pkg". Missing identifier field for "RacePointOSSpotlightImporters.pkg". Missing identifier field for "RosieAppSupport.pkg". I am using Xcode 2.4. Any hints for this newbie? Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ 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 building a number of packages and then combining them into a single distribution installer. When I add the packages into the distribution, I get the following errors: This is one line for each of the sub-packages. I have created the package projects using package maker and I am building the packages via a perl script. Here is an excerpt from the perl script: `/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -build -proj ../../scripts/distributionMaker/ PackageMaker/RacePointOSFrameworks.pmproj -p ../../build/Release/ RacePointOSFrameworks.pkg -v`; `/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -build -proj ../../scripts/distributionMaker/ PackageMaker/RacePointOSSpotlightImporters.pmproj -p ../../build/ Release/RacePointOSSpotlightImporters.pkg -v`; `/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -build -proj ../../scripts/distributionMaker/ PackageMaker/RosieAppSupport.pmproj -p ../../build/Release/ RosieAppSupport.pkg -v`; `/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -build -proj ../../scripts/distributionMaker/ PackageMaker/RosieApps.pmproj -p ../../build/Release/RosieApps.pkg -v`; `/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -build -proj ../../scripts/distributionMaker/ PackageMaker/RosieConfigMgmtApps.pmproj -p ../../build/Release/ RosieConfigMgmtApps.pkg -v`; `/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -build -proj ../../scripts/distributionMaker/ PackageMaker/RosieUnixUtils.pmproj -p ../../build/Release/ RosieUnixUtils.pkg -v`; `/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -build -proj ../../scripts/distributionMaker/ PackageMaker/UIAppSupport.pmproj -p ../../build/Release/ UIAppSupport.pkg -v`; `/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -build -proj ../../scripts/distributionMaker/ PackageMaker/UIApps.pmproj -p ../../build/Release/UIApps.pkg -v`; `/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -build -proj ../../scripts/distributionMaker/ PackageMaker/UIQCPlugins.pmproj -p ../../build/Release/ UIQCPlugins.pkg -v`; `/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -build -proj ../../scripts/distributionMaker/ PackageMaker/UIUnixUtils.pmproj -p ../../build/Release/ UIUnixUtils.pkg -v`; `/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -build -proj ../../scripts/distributionMaker/ PackageMaker/RosieRacePointOSDistribution.pmproj -p $packageDest/ RosieRacePointOSDistribution.pkg -v`; This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Select Destination screen
by cohen.rick＠gmail.com 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

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Server startup installation issues!
by rohit dhamija 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

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Re: Testing for downgrade in Distribution Scripts
by Bill Coderre 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

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RE: Distribution Scripts in Network Installs
by Perbix, Michael 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Acbdi3A+rws8cEl+EduHzAAKlbs3igABTRzQ Thread-topic: Distribution Scripts in Network Installs I have seen many problems with using a Metapackage or distribution when trying to install WHILE booted from the netrestore volume (meaning from a post-action script or such). What I had to do was use a login item that is installed and set by my post-action script, then on first login it runs and deletes itself. I bind to AD/OD, install packages and create users from this script, and it has been super stable for me. -Mike -----Original Message----- From: installer-dev-bounces+perbix=lmsd.org(a)lists.apple.com [mailto:installer-dev-bounces+perbix=lmsd.org@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of Sean P. Kane Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:37 AM To: system-imaging(a)lists.apple.com Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Distribution Scripts in Network Installs I am using Netboot to deploy clean installs of Apple OS X 10.4.6 and then apply a distribution package that includes the Mac OS X 10.4.7 combo updater among other things. I am having problems making this work. During Netboot I just get a spinning beach ball. So, 2 questions: 1) Should distribution packages work fine within NetInstall? 2) Is is there a practical size limit on the packages deployed this way? Since the combo updater is so, big, and I have the Intel and PPC one in there, this may be the issue. Thanks, Sean -- Sean P. Kane Macintosh Client Engineering Support | Nike, Inc. Affiliated Computer Services | Beaverton, Oregon _______________________________________________ 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/perbix%40lmsd.org This email sent to perbix(a)lmsd.org _______________________________________________ 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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Distribution Scripts in Network Installs
by Sean P. Kane 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Acbdi3A+rws8cEl+EduHzAAKlbs3ig== Thread-topic: Distribution Scripts in Network Installs User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620 I am using Netboot to deploy clean installs of Apple OS X 10.4.6 and then apply a distribution package that includes the Mac OS X 10.4.7 combo updater among other things. I am having problems making this work. During Netboot I just get a spinning beach ball. So, 2 questions: 1) Should distribution packages work fine within NetInstall? 2) Is is there a practical size limit on the packages deployed this way? Since the combo updater is so, big, and I have the Intel and PPC one in there, this may be the issue. Thanks, Sean -- Sean P. Kane Macintosh Client Engineering Support | Nike, Inc. Affiliated Computer Services | Beaverton, Oregon _______________________________________________ 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: Testing for downgrade in Distribution Scripts
by Sean P. Kane 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcbdiMBo/rGiqEl7EduHzAAKlbs3ig== Thread-topic: Testing for downgrade in Distribution Scripts User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620 _______________________________________________ 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: Infinite loop between <choice> start_* attributes and mixed state aborted.
by Sean P. Kane 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcbdiGBxnyCyAEl7EduHzAAKlbs3ig== Thread-topic: Infinite loop between <choice> start_* attributes and mixed state aborted. User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620 Something like this might work. Mentions the problem and the fix. "Infinite loop between start_* attributes aborted. Avoid nesting dynamic functions in start_* attributes to fix." It isn't perfect either, but hopefully a step in the right direction. Sean -- Sean P. Kane Macintosh Client Engineering Support | Nike, Inc. Affiliated Computer Services | Beaverton, Oregon > From: Peter Bierman <bierman(a)apple.com> > Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:11:31 -0700 > To: "Sean P. Kane" <sean.kane(a)nike.com> > Cc: <installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com> > Subject: Re: Infinite loop between <choice> start_* attributes and mixed state > aborted. > > Any suggestions for how I could phrase the warning more clearly? > > -pmb > > > At 1:46 PM -0700 9/20/06, Sean P. Kane wrote: >> I had vaguely come to that conclusion but your explanation definitely made >> it all that clearer. I have re-arranged my packages in the distribution >> package to allow me to make the necessary checks I need. Hopefully this will >> work out. >> >> Thanks, >> Sean >> >> -- >> Sean P. Kane >> Macintosh Client Engineering Support | Nike, Inc. >> Affiliated Computer Services | Beaverton, Oregon >> >> >>> From: Peter Bierman <bierman(a)apple.com> >>> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:41:39 -0700 >>> To: "Kane, Sean (ACS-ETW)" <Sean.Kane(a)nike.com> >>> Cc: <installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com> >>> Subject: Re: Infinite loop between <choice> start_* attributes and >>> mixed state >>> aborted. >>> >>> At 10:33 AM -0700 9/20/06, Kane, Sean (ACS-ETW) wrote: >>>> I am getting these errors in the install.log on a distribution >>>> package that I am trying to create: >>>> >>>> Package Authoring Error: Infinite loop between <choice> start_* >>>> attributes and mixed state aborted. >>>> >>>> They don't seem to affect anything, but I don't really understand >>>> what is causing them. I'm assuming my logic somewhere is broken. Can >>>> anyone out there explain these to me? >>> >>> >>> Sure! >>> >>> The installer is evaluating the JavaScript code that you've attached >>> to your various <choice> elements. >>> >>> The installer is also looking at the selected state of nested >>> choices, and using those values to determine if a parent choice >>> should show an "X" or a "-". >>> >>> If you override the 'selected' attribute of a choice that has other >>> choices as children, you can get into a situation where you turn the >>> parent 'off', but turn a child 'on', and then the installer can't >>> figure out what state the parent should actually be in. >>> >>> Since the attribute engine works by evaluating choice attributes in a >>> loop until they stop changing, this situation creates an infinite >>> loop, which the installer detects and logs. >>> >>> >>> The solution is simple. Don't attach dynamic scripts to both parents >>> and children choices. One or the other should suffice. Usually you >>> want to control just the children and let the installer figure out >>> the mixed state of the parents on it's own. >>> >>> -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.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Testing for downgrade in Distribution Scripts
by Peter Bierman 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Ok. I have a Distribution Script that among other things will install Quicktime 7.1.3 if the system is > 10.4 and passes the following test: ! my.target.receiptForIdentifier('com.apple.pkg.QuickTime713') This works ok, but I'm assuming that it will cause problems once a machine has been upgraded to Quicktime 7.1.4. How do I update this to also ensure that it is an upgrade (or to disallow downgrades)? -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 2:22 PM -0700 9/20/06, Sean P. Kane wrote: You are correct. Unfortunately, we're still trying to tidy up packages here at Apple so that version numbers don't end up inside package IDs. (Let this be a lesson for lurkers! Don't do that!) Bill's suggestion of checking the version of the QuickTime framework itself, instead of the package, is the right one. Sorry we sent you on a bit of a snipe hunt. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: How do I prohibit installation based on current software version?
by Stéphane Sudre 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On mardi, septembre 19, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Chris Waldrip wrote: Usage is: Hope it helps. _______________________________________________ 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've made an installer for some easy presets for Final Cut Pro, but they're specific to FCP5. In Iceberg I've added a requirement in the appropriate section to require that the CFBundleVersion of /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/Resources/AELicensingAquaPro.bundle be at least 1.2. Looking at an install of 4.5 that seemed like a good choice since that Bundle doesn't exist (at least on the install I tested). But when installed on a system running an earlier build of FCP 4 it didn't stop the installer. How can I identify the version of a target application, and if that target application doesn't exist or is an incorrect/earlier version, keep the installer from running. The Requirements section in Iceberg looks to be the perfect place, but I can't find a unique identifier for FCP5. OK, I coded a little tool which is available at: http://s.sudre.free.fr/files/checkversion.zip It needs to be compiled with XCode 2.3 or later and should work from 10.2.8 to 10.4.x (PPC/Intel). checkappversion [-c creator] [-b bundle_identifier] [-n bundle_name] [-f default_app_path] comparator version comparator can be >,>=,==,<=,< Just be sure to set a "" around the comparator to avoid redirecting the standard input/output. It returns 1 if the result is OK, 0 if it's not. If the bundle does not exist or can't be found, it returns 0. So to solve your problem, you can probably just call it like this in an InstallerCheck script: checkappversion -f /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/Resources/AELicensingAquaPro.bundle ">=" 1.2 It's using the LaunchServices API to locate applications (only default path will work with bundle). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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