September 2006 - Installer-dev

Re: Testing for downgrade in Distribution Scripts
by Bill Coderre 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

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Testing for downgrade in Distribution Scripts
by Sean P. Kane 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcbcPkMwgYibcUgxEduHzAAKlbs3igAnJA6TAAAmh+cAB9yNdw== Thread-topic: Testing for downgrade in Distribution Scripts User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620 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)? I think it has something to do with choices.*.packageUpgradeAction, but I'm not sure how to use it. I apologize if this has been covered before, I have been unable to search the archived reliably for 2 days now. 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: Infinite loop between <choice> start_* attributes and mixed state aborted.
by Peter Bierman 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Any suggestions for how I could phrase the warning more clearly? -pmb 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 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.… At 1:46 PM -0700 9/20/06, Sean P. Kane wrote: 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: 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 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Acbc9ds9GhA320jpEduHzAAKlbs3ig== Thread-topic: Infinite loop between <choice> start_* attributes and mixed state aborted. User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620 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: Infinite loop between <choice> start_* attributes and mixed state aborted.
by Peter Bierman 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Sure! -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 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? 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. 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 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcbcPkMwgYibcUgxEduHzAAKlbs3igAnJA6TAAAmh+c= Thread-topic: Infinite loop between <choice> start_* attributes and mixed state aborted. User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620 Sorry about the multiple mailings. Darn Microsoft Outlook Web Access was giving me errors. I didn't realize it had already sent properly. Sean -- Sean P. Kane Macintosh Client Engineering Support | Nike, Inc. Affiliated Computer Services | Beaverton, Oregon > From: "Kane, Sean (ACS-ETW)" <Sean.Kane(a)nike.com> > Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:33:03 -0700 > To: "Kane, Sean (ACS-ETW)" <Sean.Kane(a)nike.com>, Christopher Ryan > <ryanc(a)apple.com> > Cc: <installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com> > Conversation: Infinite loop between <choice> start_* attributes and mixed > state aborted. > Subject: Infinite loop between <choice> start_* attributes and mixed state > aborted. > > > > > > > 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? > > Thanks, > Sean > > > ----------------------------------------- > Sean P. Kane > Nike Macintosh Client Engineering Support > 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/sean.kane%40nike.com > > This email sent to sean.kane(a)nike.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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Infinite loop between <choice> start_* attributes and mixed state aborted.
by Kane, Sean (ACS-ETW) 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcbcPkMwgYibcUgxEduHzAAKlbs3igAnJA6T Thread-topic: Infinite loop between <choice> start_* attributes and mixed state aborted. 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? Thanks, Sean ----------------------------------------- Sean P. Kane Nike Macintosh Client Engineering Support 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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Installer Plugin sample code available on ADC site
by Luke Bellandi 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/InstallerPluginSample/ Please direct comments and questions about the sample to this list. - Apple Computer's Mac OS X Installer team _______________________________________________ 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.… Apple has posted sample code on its ADC site for developers interested in creating sample plugins. It's available here: This sample builds an Installer plugin and includes a sample package and instructions on how to integrate the plugin into that package. Hopefully this will help developers get up to speed much more quickly on the issue. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: system.files.fileExistsAtPath
by Sean P. Kane 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcbcPkMwgYibcUgxEduHzAAKlbs3ig== Thread-topic: system.files.fileExistsAtPath User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620 Thank you. I will give that a try. Sean -- Sean P. Kane Macintosh Client Engineering Support | Nike, Inc. Affiliated Computer Services | Beaverton, Oregon > From: Christopher Ryan <ryanc(a)apple.com> > Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:19:01 -0700 > To: "Sean P. Kane" <sean.kane(a)nike.com> > Cc: <installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com> > Subject: Re: system.files.fileExistsAtPath > > If you know the identifier of the security update (I don't know it off > hand) you can use: > > my.target.receiptForIdentifier() > > This will return an object representing the receipt (with the > properties identifier and version). > > Chris > > >> Question: >> >> If I am running the following code in a distribution package >> choice¹s scripts: >> >> (system.sysctl('hw.machine') == 'i386' && >> system.files.fileExistsAtPath('/Library/Receipts/ >> SecUpd2006-004Intel.pkg') == false) && my.choice.selected >> >> Which is intended to determine if the machine is an intel based >> system and already has SecUpd2006-004Intel.pkg installed, will >> system.files.fileExistsAtPath check for that file on the system I am >> booted to or on the target? If it is on the System Disk, is there a >> way to check the target instead? >> >> 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/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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How do I prohibit installation based on current software version?
by Chris Waldrip 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com -Chris _______________________________________________ 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 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. smime.p7s

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