September 2006 - Installer-dev

Re: Can a metapackage display the licenses for the component packages?
by Luke Bellandi 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Sep 7, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Dave Camp wrote: No and Yes, respectively. - Luke Thanks, Dave --- It is dark; you are likely to be eaten by a grue. -Zork _______________________________________________ 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/luke%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.… I'm creating a metapackage that will install my software, and some necessary 3rd party software that comes in it's own package. What I would like to do is have the metapackage display the licenses and read-me's for both component packages before the install. Is that possible? Or do I have to create a single (combined) license and read-me for the metapackage myself? Metapackages display their documents only, and will not display any document content from their contained packages. This email sent to luke(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Can a metapackage display the licenses for the component packages?
by Dave Camp 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thanks, Dave --- It is dark; you are likely to be eaten by a grue. -Zork _______________________________________________ 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'm creating a metapackage that will install my software, and some necessary 3rd party software that comes in it's own package. What I would like to do is have the metapackage display the licenses and read-me's for both component packages before the install. Is that possible? Or do I have to create a single (combined) license and read-me for the metapackage myself? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Updating an installed program
by Luke Bellandi 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi Peter, http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/Software… - Luke On Sep 7, 2006, at 9:59 AM, Rick Sustek wrote: Have fun, -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/luke%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.… is Apple's Software Distribution & Delivery guide. It's a good place to get started. For matters related to seeing if the program was already installed, and if so, what version, you should look at the "InstallationCheck" script mechanism. Also, understanding of the /Library/Receipts mechanism as well. Searches for these terms in the developer documentation browser should get you what you need. This email sent to luke(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Updating an installed program
by Rick Sustek 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Have fun, -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.… For matters related to seeing if the program was already installed, and if so, what version, you should look at the "InstallationCheck" script mechanism. Also, understanding of the /Library/Receipts mechanism as well. Searches for these terms in the developer documentation browser should get you what you need. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Updating an installed program
by Peter Mulholland 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello installer-dev, I'm a complete installer noob so what I'm going to ask may be simple, but here goes. We are updating our games for Universal Binaries. One game in particular (Airline Tycoon) is installed using a combination of two meta packages - a "common" mpkg, and a "language" mpkg. What we need to do is update several files (the executable and some dylibs) inside the bundle. I'm not sure how to achieve this with Installer, and produce a suitable error message if the game isn't installed. -- Best regards, Peter mailto:darkmatter@freeuk.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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Problems with requirements and InstallationCheck on OS X 10.3 and 10.2
by cohen.rick＠gmail.com 07 Sep '06

07 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:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=uaiXf6DptLhdpuiK6B2ZD3GPgUj+3MWDCBgnFQ+MJkvYpjo6vJNrh4qaD3kNtduKi7nxgiJEi1A2v0k2UD4eHgNoMNG/vyjxTbJGHWyjLgRw9QD+10//tRL9LegTh6IonoOJMjcZZa1ahrn0BGgXbilrjzPoXnMjhNgq36hJbO8= User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Hi folks, Thanks in advance for any advice. - 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.… I am creating a product installer metapackage, using the wonderful Iceberg. The product runs on 10.2 and above. However, some components are different in Tiger and in Panther/Jaguar. Also, some other components are different between Intel and PPC Macs. I am using separate packages for these different components, and I'm trying to use the installer to decide which components are right for each possible Mac. All of the components have the Selected attribute set. None of them have the "Required" flag set. Iceberg allows the creation of requirements, which are supported in 10.4 and 10.3, and ignored in 10.2. According to documentation, in 10.3 and 10.4 if requirements are found, the InstallationCheck script is ignored. So what I've done is to create both requirements and InstallationCheck scripts for each component. If I install my product on 10.4 (which uses the requirements and ignores the script), everything seems to work perfectly. If I look at the components during the Install by pressing the Customize button, I can see that the components that do not match the requirements are greyed out. If I run my installer on a 10.3 system, the error message that is associated with my first 10.4-only component is displayed, and the user's only option is to close the installer. If I run my installer on a 10.2 system, a screen immediately appears that says the software cannot be installed on this computer. Is it possible to achieve the same results that I see on my 10.4 system while installing on earlier versions of OS X? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: exception with packagemaker and mpkg
by Sean Kelly 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thanks, Sean Kelly On Sep 6, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Barry Janzen wrote: Any ideas? _______________________________________________ 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.… Could you send the files necessary to reproduce the bug? Also, which version of PackageMaker are you using? Running packagemaker from the command line on a distribution package that builds the mpkg fine from the GUI throws an exception from the command line: *** Uncaught exception: <NSInvalidArgumentException> *** -[NSPlaceholderMutableString initWithString:]: nil argument. b This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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exception with packagemaker and mpkg
by Barry Janzen 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Running packagemaker from the command line on a distribution package that builds the mpkg fine from the GUI throws an exception from the command line: *** Uncaught exception: <NSInvalidArgumentException> *** -[NSPlaceholderMutableString initWithString:]: nil argument. Any ideas? b _______________________________________________ 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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