January 2007 - Installer-dev

Re: Problems with Metapackages in Panther.
by Dennet Menezes 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.6.040913.0 Hi, I tried using the exit value 33 but it still gives me inconsistent results and I have no clue as to why. I have 11 language specific packages which I need to club into a metapackage. The individual packages should be installed only if there is a specific file (which points to the language) in a particular location. The volume check scripts are of the form #!/bin/sh if [ -f "/Applications/TestFolder/Dutch" ]; then echo "Dutch-Yes" exit 0 else echo "Dutch-No" exit 33 fi with the exit value 33 as you suggested. However exit value 32 or 33 it works perfectly fine in Tiger! Changing the exit value to 33 got it working briefly in Panther for a metapackage containing two packages but very inconsistently. There were times it enabled the packages even if the VolumeCheck failed. With 11 packages I have never got it working right. Am I missing something obvious? How can a metapackage go ahead and install a package which cannot be installed standalone? Thanks Dennet. On 1/21/07 6:36 PM, "Stéphane Sudre" <ssudre2(a)wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > On jeudi, janvier 18, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Dennet Menezes wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a Metapackage that contains individual packages with their own >> VolumeCheck scripts. These packages are assigned the attribute >> "Selected" in >> the Metapackage Info.plist. When I install this metapackage in Tiger >> the >> VolumeCheck scripts for all the packages are run and they get >> automatically >> enabled/disabled in the Customize panel in case the script for a >> package >> succeeds/fails. However this is not the case in Panther where in-spite >> of >> the VolumeCheck scripts failing (which is verified by installing the >> packages standalone) the metapackage goes on to allow installation for >> all >> the packages. >> >> Is there any way I can get the metapackage to validate my individual >> packages disabling the ones whose VolumeCheck script fails in Panther >> just >> as it does in Tiger? > > From what I can see on Mac OS X 10.3.9, with the following test case: > > Metapackage --+-- Package 1 > | > +-- Package 2 > > Package 1 VolumeCheck script: > > #!/bin/sh > > exit 0 > > Package 2 VolumeCheck script: > > #!/bin/sh > > exit 32 > > AFAIK, according to documentation at > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/ > SoftwareDistribution/Legacy_Requirements/chapter_950_section_5.html: > > 32 (2^5) is the first possible error value to return. > > If you run this metapackage, in the Customize pane, both Package 1 and > Package 2 will be enabled and selected. > > If you change 32 to 33, in the Customize pane, Package 1 is enabled and > selected. Package 2 is disabled and unselected. > > My $0.02 > > P.S: this might be seen as a resent in the future as I posted a reply > on Thursday but it hasn't appeared yet on the list. > ----------------------------------------------- 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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Re: multiple license and readme files
by Stéphane Sudre 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On dimanche, janvier 21, 2007, at 03:31 PM, Dan Nigrin wrote: This is somehow how Safari is doing for the acknowledgements. http://lists.apple.com/archives/installer-dev/2006/Jan/msg00058.html _______________________________________________ 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.… Aggregate the ReadMe and License files into one ReadMe and one License file and put them in the root metapackage? Since you need to run on 10.3, an Installer Plugin would not do any good. Stéphane, thanks for the response - although this is a straightforward option, the reason I want to do it the way I originally described is because one of the packages is from a different software provider. They have given me the permission to bundle their installer within mine, but I would much prefer not to "mess" at all with their installer, in order to keep the separation of "their" stuff from "my stuff" fairly clean... While this solution would not require changing the installers (since the License and ReadMe are just not displayed), another solution could be: o Writing a small tool called by InstallationCheck that would display the different ReadMe and License documents in a series of pane. The issue with this is that it may be tough to make it work when installing with ARD (no UI). In the interim, I did find a previous post on the list covering some of the same ground: I'm interested in further exploring the bit that says "I suppose it's also possible to chain several installers together, such that when the user finishes one installer, the next is automatically launched." Could anyone suggest an approach to how I could do this, with the following constraints: * Only one installer package visible to end user * Run a postflight script after both pacakges installed, but which is currently NOT part of the second package (and which is the other software provider's, so I would like to not add anything to their package). This would probably require killing Installer.app in the postflight script since chained packages installation is available only from 10.4 IIRC. Another issue with this could be permissions. If the first package requires Root/Admin authentication, the postflight script is run as root so Installer.app might be run as root when launched from this script. Another suggestion could be to just use the installer command line tool and build the UI around it for the license and readme documents. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: multiple license and readme files
by Dan Nigrin 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com This is somehow how Safari is doing for the acknowledgements. http://lists.apple.com/archives/installer-dev/2006/Jan/msg00058.html Thanks in advance, Dan -- Dan Nigrin Defective Records 202 Hack / PC-1600 User / VSTi Host / OMS Convert / Jack OS X http://www.defectiverecords.com http://www.jackosx.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.… Aggregate the ReadMe and License files into one ReadMe and one License file and put them in the root metapackage? Since you need to run on 10.3, an Installer Plugin would not do any good. Stéphane, thanks for the response - although this is a straightforward option, the reason I want to do it the way I originally described is because one of the packages is from a different software provider. They have given me the permission to bundle their installer within mine, but I would much prefer not to "mess" at all with their installer, in order to keep the separation of "their" stuff from "my stuff" fairly clean... In the interim, I did find a previous post on the list covering some of the same ground: I'm interested in further exploring the bit that says "I suppose it's also possible to chain several installers together, such that when the user finishes one installer, the next is automatically launched." Could anyone suggest an approach to how I could do this, with the following constraints: * Only one installer package visible to end user * Run a postflight script after both pacakges installed, but which is currently NOT part of the second package (and which is the other software provider's, so I would like to not add anything to their package). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: multiple license and readme files
by Stéphane Sudre 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On vendredi, janvier 19, 2007, at 03:33 AM, Dan Nigrin wrote: This is somehow how Safari is doing for the acknowledgements. _______________________________________________ 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 new to the list - searched the archives and couldn't find the answer to the following question - hopefully someone can help. I have a .pkg and a .mpkg, that I want to bundle together in a single installer. I was planning to use a metapackage, as I need to deploy to both 10.4 and 10.3 systems. What I need to happen though is that I want the Readme and the License file for the .pkg to be displayed, and then the .pkg install to happen, and then I want the Readme and the License for the .mpkg to be displayed, and then the .mpkg install happens. Then I need to run a postflight script after the whole thing. I have the sequential .pkg then the .mpkg install working fine in my metapackage, and then the postflight script, but I can only figure out how to display *one* readme and license file, for the whole shebang (the ones I include in the wrapper metapackage). How should I go about what I'm trying to do? Hopefully my description made some sense... Aggregate the ReadMe and License files into one ReadMe and one License file and put them in the root metapackage? Since you need to run on 10.3, an Installer Plugin would not do any good. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Problems with Metapackages in Panther.
by Stéphane Sudre 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On jeudi, janvier 18, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Dennet Menezes wrote: Hi, >From what I can see on Mac OS X 10.3.9, with the following test case: Metapackage --+-- Package 1 | +-- Package 2 Package 1 VolumeCheck script: #!/bin/sh exit 0 Package 2 VolumeCheck script: #!/bin/sh exit 32 32 (2^5) is the first possible error value to return. My $0.02 _______________________________________________ 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 have a Metapackage that contains individual packages with their own VolumeCheck scripts. These packages are assigned the attribute "Selected" in the Metapackage Info.plist. When I install this metapackage in Tiger the VolumeCheck scripts for all the packages are run and they get automatically enabled/disabled in the Customize panel in case the script for a package succeeds/fails. However this is not the case in Panther where in-spite of the VolumeCheck scripts failing (which is verified by installing the packages standalone) the metapackage goes on to allow installation for all the packages. Is there any way I can get the metapackage to validate my individual packages disabling the ones whose VolumeCheck script fails in Panther just as it does in Tiger? AFAIK, according to documentation at http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/ SoftwareDistribution/Legacy_Requirements/chapter_950_section_5.html: If you run this metapackage, in the Customize pane, both Package 1 and Package 2 will be enabled and selected. If you change 32 to 33, in the Customize pane, Package 1 is enabled and selected. Package 2 is disabled and unselected. P.S: this might be seen as a resent in the future as I posted a reply on Thursday but it hasn't appeared yet on the list. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Test
by Stéphane Sudre 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

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Overwrite files installed by package with same major and minor version
by Gary Pederson 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:content-type:to:from:subject:date:x-mailer; b=b+Bci1D4z0/JD4WuiJNVW2ET+SjrkhIc2bczUO/vaLu6421GrrNuMWKmggiv6RZ4ZeZ1ooLIcl6RXytRnyphjqjPJukU4xZe9g/fpbdOoWE9hleqM2lyQrjARhjbbi+W+dI4DfF7x0/49Wo3r+Zblre2keNHvFnGxu6mGrlU1QU= Thanks, Gary _______________________________________________ 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 want overwrite files installed from a package with the same major and minor version numbers. Installer app does not do this. I there a plist key that tells Installer app to replace files installed by the same package version? I've been using Iceberg and it only writes a CFBundleShortVersionString in the plist. Will Installer app look at a CFBundleVersion key in the package plist to determine file replacement? Example: Will files installed by a package with CFBundleVersion="10.0.0.751" overwrite files installed by a package with CFBundleVersion="10.0.0.750"? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Problems with Metapackages in Panther.
by Dennet Menezes 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.6.040913.0 Hi Luke, Attached is the metapackage exhibiting the behavior I was talking about. The individual packages (Package1 and Package2) have VolumeCheck scripts that look for a plain text file (of the name 1 and 2 respectively) inside /Applications/. In Tiger based on the presence or absence of these files the packages are shown as enabled and selected or disabled in the customize panel. In Panther they all appear enabled irrespective of whether the files are present or absent. Thanks Dennet. On 1/18/07 10:02 PM, "Luke Bellandi" <luke(a)apple.com> wrote: > Hi Dennet, > > On Jan 18, 2007, at 2:22 AM, Dennet Menezes wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a Metapackage that contains individual packages with their own >> VolumeCheck scripts. These packages are assigned the attribute >> "Selected" in >> the Metapackage Info.plist. When I install this metapackage in Tiger >> the >> VolumeCheck scripts for all the packages are run and they get >> automatically >> enabled/disabled in the Customize panel in case the script for a >> package >> succeeds/fails. However this is not the case in Panther where in- >> spite of >> the VolumeCheck scripts failing (which is verified by installing the >> packages standalone) the metapackage goes on to allow installation >> for all >> the packages. >> >> Is there any way I can get the metapackage to validate my individual >> packages disabling the ones whose VolumeCheck script fails in >> Panther just >> as it does in Tiger? > > Can you send us a sample package exhibiting this behavior? > > Thanks, > Luke > ----------------------------------------------- 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 Packages.zip

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multiple license and readme files
by Dan Nigrin 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thanks, Dan _______________________________________________ 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 new to the list - searched the archives and couldn't find the answer to the following question - hopefully someone can help. I have a .pkg and a .mpkg, that I want to bundle together in a single installer. I was planning to use a metapackage, as I need to deploy to both 10.4 and 10.3 systems. What I need to happen though is that I want the Readme and the License file for the .pkg to be displayed, and then the .pkg install to happen, and then I want the Readme and the License for the .mpkg to be displayed, and then the .mpkg install happens. Then I need to run a postflight script after the whole thing. I have the sequential .pkg then the .mpkg install working fine in my metapackage, and then the postflight script, but I can only figure out how to display *one* readme and license file, for the whole shebang (the ones I include in the wrapper metapackage). How should I go about what I'm trying to do? Hopefully my description made some sense... This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Problems with Metapackages in Panther.
by Luke Bellandi 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi Dennet, On Jan 18, 2007, at 2:22 AM, Dennet Menezes wrote: Hi, Can you send us a sample package exhibiting this behavior? Thanks, Luke _______________________________________________ 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 have a Metapackage that contains individual packages with their own VolumeCheck scripts. These packages are assigned the attribute "Selected" in the Metapackage Info.plist. When I install this metapackage in Tiger the VolumeCheck scripts for all the packages are run and they get automatically enabled/disabled in the Customize panel in case the script for a package succeeds/fails. However this is not the case in Panther where in- spite of the VolumeCheck scripts failing (which is verified by installing the packages standalone) the metapackage goes on to allow installation for all the packages. Is there any way I can get the metapackage to validate my individual packages disabling the ones whose VolumeCheck script fails in Panther just as it does in Tiger? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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