October 2007 - Installer-dev

Re: No progress during large decompression?
by Bill Coderre 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

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Re: No progress during large decompression?
by Mark Krenek 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

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Re: No progress during large decompression?
by Bill Coderre 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

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Re: No progress during large decompression?
by Peter Bierman 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Is it "about" 4GB, or more than 4GB? -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/bierman%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.… The installer does update the progress bar during extraction, but there may be bugs with archives bigger than 4GB. Try splitting up the content if possible. At 3:58 PM -0500 10/18/07, Mark Krenek wrote: I have a simple .pkg installer that installs about 4GB of data. The installer progresses fairly quickly up to about 95% complete. Then it hangs out there for a good 5 minutes. The log says "Extracting files". So I assume this is it simply unarchiving the rather large Archive.pax.gz file. The problem is that most users are going to think the installer has frozen. In fact, I did myself. Is this normal that the progress bar doesn't get updated while unarchiving? I can't easily break this package into smaller ones. This email sent to bierman(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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No progress during large decompression?
by Mark Krenek 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

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Re: Ask user to quit application before installing?
by Stéphane Sudre 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On lundi, octobre 15, 2007, at 07:43 PM, Bryan Hansen wrote: - not all applications have an CFBundleIdentifier - not all applications have a correct Creator code or even one My $0.01 _______________________________________________ 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 looking for a way to ask the user to quit an application before installing. Is this possible with package maker? Additionally to what Bill C. said, there's another option possible as long as you don't need to install your package through ARD or via the installer command line: Think reverse. Instead of checking during the installation procedure, don't launch the installation until the application has been quit. This would require putting the package inside a wrapper. You can stick a custom icon or a package icon on the wrapper application. When the application you want to be quit has done so, you can open the package (NSWorkspace or LaunchServices should work fine in most OS versions) This allows for more flexibility from a user point of view (nicer UI) and on the method you want to use to check that the application is still running: - ps or killall is not reliable to find a process as they just check the name (a partial one that is). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Ask user to quit application before installing?
by Bill Coderre 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Oct 15, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Bryan Hansen wrote: I'm looking for a way to ask the user to quit an application before installing. Is this possible with package maker? In Tiger-based installs, you can write some javascript to throw an error if the app is running by checking system.applications.fromIdentifier. If it returns non-null, that app is running. In earlier scripts, in your InstallationCheck you can check the results of the shell command "killall -s" Apple does stuff like this a lot. We used to use ps -aux, but killall is easier to work with. Apple sometimes uses a helper app to pop up an alert asking the user to quit, but I don't recommend that for your installers because it's way better to let the user know right away, during InstallationCheck phase. (We HAVE to use the alert for various reasons related to Software Update.) _______________________________________________ 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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Ask user to quit application before installing?
by Bryan Hansen 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

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RE: Scripting Best Practices
by John Williams 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

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Scripting Best Practices
by John Williams 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

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