September 2006 - Installer-dev

Re: system.files.fileExistsAtPath
by Christopher Ryan 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com my.target.receiptForIdentifier() Chris Question: 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 _______________________________________________ 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 know the identifier of the security update (I don't know it off hand) you can use: This will return an object representing the receipt (with the properties identifier and version). If I am running the following code in a distribution package choice’s 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? This email sent to ryanc(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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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: AcbcHw5hTQcnAUgSEduHzAAKlbs3ig== Thread-topic: system.files.fileExistsAtPath 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: Invisible files
by Stéphane Sudre 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On vendredi, septembre 15, 2006, at 09:02 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: Hi Rick, Sean Kelly On Sep 15, 2006, at 11:26 AM, cohen.rick(a)gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, _______________________________________________ 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.… Since AppleScript may only work when you're running the installation manually, a solution that would work every time would be to notify the Finder about the creations of those files. It is quite possible to write a command tool which could be invoked from the postflight script and which would do exactly that. In the Files.h header of the CoreCarbon framework you should find some FSNot... APIs to do this. You might be able to do this with some AppleScript in your postflight. It looks like the Finder dictionary has an "update" command, which "Updates the display of the specified object(s) to match their on-disk representation". I don't know if this was available on Panther. In my installer I have some files that I am copying using the "cp" command in a script. This seems to work fine in Tiger, but in Panther (10.3.9) these files are invisible in the Finder. I can see them using "ls" in the Terminal app. They become visible after I relaunch the Finder, or restart the Mac. Any ideas on why these files are invisible, and how to make the files visible right away? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Invisible files
by Sean Kelly 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi Rick, Sean Kelly On Sep 15, 2006, at 11:26 AM, cohen.rick(a)gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Thanks! - Rick _______________________________________________ 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.kelly%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.… You might be able to do this with some AppleScript in your postflight. It looks like the Finder dictionary has an "update" command, which "Updates the display of the specified object(s) to match their on-disk representation". I don't know if this was available on Panther. In my installer I have some files that I am copying using the "cp" command in a script. This seems to work fine in Tiger, but in Panther (10.3.9) these files are invisible in the Finder. I can see them using "ls" in the Terminal app. They become visible after I relaunch the Finder, or restart the Mac. Any ideas on why these files are invisible, and how to make the files visible right away? This email sent to sean.kelly(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Invisible files
by Bill Coderre 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Sep 15, 2006, at 11:26 AM, cohen.rick(a)gmail.com wrote: In my installer I have some files that I am copying using the "cp" command in a script. This seems to work fine in Tiger, but in Panther (10.3.9) these files are invisible in the Finder. I can see them using "ls" in the Terminal app. They become visible after I relaunch the Finder, or restart the Mac. Any ideas on why these files are invisible, and how to make the files visible right away? The Finder does not check folders of open windows to see if they had changed, as an intentional design decision. Until Tiger, the Finder was not notified when folders changed contents. Thus, the problem is there until Tiger. There were a bunch of workarounds I saw, but the only ones I remember worked because the user did some stuff. I don't recall a trick that a program can do to convince the finder to update a folder window. _______________________________________________ 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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Invisible files
by cohen.rick＠gmail.com 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '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=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=S/dqrLE59kwryJskW/Pfhgtcn7t1R+Ww/2MRHKo00RTxeD9SX74lH1UBnMiAyq74hBuVTjFmolbcqqCQ0NrQ84vhl3/B7IOe4bNIsTwIlGgZsydQvV9lyQ2mNa9UZqi5ayiqsMm6gHNHXN8kFmR/s0SPhaRl63Hni30RNSTbxzU= User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Hi folks, Thanks! - Rick _______________________________________________ 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.… In my installer I have some files that I am copying using the "cp" command in a script. This seems to work fine in Tiger, but in Panther (10.3.9) these files are invisible in the Finder. I can see them using "ls" in the Terminal app. They become visible after I relaunch the Finder, or restart the Mac. Any ideas on why these files are invisible, and how to make the files visible right away? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Displaying the Restart Dialog
by Ian Ward Comfort 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to restart" —IWC _______________________________________________ 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 Sep 14, 2006, at 3:46 PM, Jeff Looman wrote: I am trying to display the standard Restart dialog from within a postflight script during a Jaguar installation of my application. I have had success in getting the workstation to reboot using: but alas, no dialog. I have read several documents on the subject but have not been able to find a way to display said dialog. Has anyone had any success getting the dialog to appear from within a shell script? The preferred way of "enforcing" restarts after a package install is to set an appropriate post-install action in PackageMaker. Is the IFPkgFlagRestartAction key not respected in Jaguar? This document [1] seems to suggest that it is, though I could find no definitive evidence. [1] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/ Conceptual/SoftwareDistribution4/SoftwareDistribution4.pdf (see pp. 41, 99) This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Displaying the Restart Dialog
by Jeff Looman 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcbYT5kl169IuERCEdu2CwAWy4uXXw== Thread-topic: Displaying the Restart Dialog User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620 I am trying to display the standard Restart dialog from within a postflight script during a Jaguar installation of my application. I have had success in getting the workstation to reboot using: osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to restart" but alas, no dialog. I have read several documents on the subject but have not been able to find a way to display said dialog. Has anyone had any success getting the dialog to appear from within a shell script? -j _______________________________________________ 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: Creating packages that can handle software updates with Packagemaker ?
by Peter Bierman 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi: I recall that the ability to build packages that would handle the software update functionality was being made available with Packagemaker while using distributions in tiger and later. This would supposedly use hashing to check for the validity of the downloaded package. However, I not able to find any documentation or samples to try to implement this for my software. Are there any samples/documentation available that details this functionality ? -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 9:25 AM -0700 9/13/06, Steven Lobo wrote: Downloadable packages are not available in Tiger (10.4). They were discussed at WWDC this year, but no additional documentation is available at this time. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Creating packages that can handle software updates with Packagemaker ?
by Steven Lobo 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcbXUUspibZZZkNEEduD8QANk6659g== Thread-topic: Creating packages that can handle software updates with Packagemaker ? User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.4.060510 Hi: I recall that the ability to build packages that would handle the software update functionality was being made available with Packagemaker while using distributions in tiger and later. This would supposedly use hashing to check for the validity of the downloaded package. However, I not able to find any documentation or samples to try to implement this for my software. Are there any samples/documentation available that details this functionality ? Steven ----------------------------------------------- Robosoft Technologies - Come home to Technology _______________________________________________ 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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