November 2007 - Installer-dev

Re: Creating Installer for Tiger as well Leopard Versions
by Bill Coderre 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi All, Is this be possible ?. On Nov 15, 2007, at 9:37 PM, JanakiRam wrote: I'm new to the mac installer world , please bear me if i ask you simple query. Actually i'm developing a Mac Application ( having cocoa app , unix executable , kext and others.. ) , now i need to create an installer for it. My Application is has 2 versions , one for Tiger & another for Leopard. Now i need to create an package maker installer --> which should detect the OS dynamically and install particular version of OS. Please provide your thoughts on implementing this feature. Thanks in Advance. You can make an mpkg that chooses one package for Leopard, one for Tiger. Stuff that's common, put it in a third package that is installed in both cases. You would use a Distribution Script to do all the thinking about whether you can install at all, what drives can be installed on, and which packages get installed. Note that some fraction of your user base is going to install your app on Tiger, then upgrade to Leopard, then call you and get you to send them another install disk because they lost theirs. So also, your app really should provide a good error message when launched on the wrong OS. And yeah, in retrospect, you'll probably end up wishing you made one app that worked on both, but for now, sure, go right ahead. Just figure out some kind of really clever way of doing version numbers. _______________________________________________ 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 Installer for Tiger as well Leopard Versions
by Alexander von Below 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Alex Am 16.11.2007 um 06:37 schrieb JanakiRam: Hi All, Is this be possible ?. -JanakiRam. _______________________________________________ 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/below%40mac.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.… Sorry, this may not be the answer you were looking for ... but wouldn't it be better if you provided a single application? It is not that hard to make dynamic distinctions for the OS you run on I'm new to the mac installer world , please bear me if i ask you simple query. Actually i'm developing a Mac Application ( having cocoa app , unix executable , kext and others.. ) , now i need to create an installer for it. My Application is has 2 versions , one for Tiger & another for Leopard. Now i need to create an package maker installer --> which should detect the OS dynamically and install particular version of OS. Please provide your thoughts on implementing this feature. Thanks in Advance. This email sent to below(a)mac.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Creating Installer for Tiger as well Leopard Versions
by JanakiRam 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

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Re: Leopard Installer sometimes skips the "Destination Select" pane?
by Peter Bierman 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com -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 11:21 AM -0600 11/14/07, Mark Krenek wrote: We have experienced a few times where the Leopard Installer will skip the "Destination Select" pane. It will go straight from the License pane to the "Installation Type" screen. If you then press "Change Location" (I think that's the name of the button), it will go back to the "Destination Select" pane. Has anyone else seen this? It is not 100% reproducible - I can't figure out what triggers this behavior. The particular package is a distribution metapackage, but I've also seen it in a standard .pkg. This is a feature of Leopard. If there's only one possible destination and the volume has been checked by the time the user would get to that panel, the panel is skipped. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: How do you localize an install requirement?
by cohen.rick＠gmail.com 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; bh=4UmCO7Vdkh7JVYO2M/whwmHXa43eJRKECmFZ5mGCMtM=; b=ZvweydtHYzFBES8rad45aShgoXWQBS4r7XnsyxYzwfIcxjC5tr/1/2/hm44s1UCTXe/1jUb6t/t+xUU70OkzAg623k24JHWaeCHufQ4NW0sf6U1jAvfeSMLZTLC+7N1oJaszKuSHTKtk9UUtFpQCIBSSVHlrmXp0gyM/H3eDOLM= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=FPYgFoqanwsj+Q4nW/nxbCf4W7qgmK7Dt4wn0NMkVr6CpKZQfcRWGDodQBtGI3sZ+4EAgqIh0Wfzj7wMZ9X5dQSzEmI7Xp4u7G9iDsvtpQ/DpEh21SG6cLZ42K2cnHFRGQytyJjaxotx0PEf7lW8sHRVYOFnP/NlztF1fs8ygEs= User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) Of course, the Requirements only work on 10.4 and later anyway. - Rick I have values in info.plist that check if someone can install via a IFRequirementDicts making sure it's 10.4 or greater. The message key is in English. Can this be localized? It's not immediately apparent because info.plist lives at the same level as Resources (where lproj's go). Barry _______________________________________________ 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/rcohen.lists%40gmail.c… This email sent to rcohen.lists(a)gmail.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.… On 11/14/2007 12:26 PM, Barry Janzen wrote: This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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How do you localize an install requirement?
by Barry Janzen 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version: content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=iopgSZ9tbUqx1NDM8Oi4hs8MaMFDJnwzsuAGMu+chCcvYEpMzXeeGt849rN+Rq3LY UP2rMpcg+INE8h6tdrsOw== I have values in info.plist that check if someone can install via a IFRequirementDicts making sure it's 10.4 or greater. The message key is in English. Can this be localized? It's not immediately apparent because info.plist lives at the same level as Resources (where lproj's go). Barry _______________________________________________ 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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Leopard Installer sometimes skips the "Destination Select" pane?
by Mark Krenek 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com We have experienced a few times where the Leopard Installer will skip the "Destination Select" pane. It will go straight from the License pane to the "Installation Type" screen. If you then press "Change Location" (I think that's the name of the button), it will go back to the "Destination Select" pane. Has anyone else seen this? It is not 100% reproducible - I can't figure out what triggers this behavior. The particular package is a distribution metapackage, but I've also seen it in a standard .pkg. _______________________________________________ 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: problems with prefllight and postflight scripts
by Stéphane Sudre 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On mardi, novembre 13, 2007, at 04:33 PM, Gregory Adair wrote: Hello all, Can you provide a simple metapackage illustrating the issue? _______________________________________________ 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 had problems running pre-installation scripts with a Meta package I made last year. When I was at WWDC, one of the developers told me to just use the iDVD preflight and postflight scripts, and dump my scripts into the respective action folders. I've been doing that, making sure my scripts are executable, and making sure that the scripts are owned by root:admin. If I launch the script via command line it works perfectly, but I can't get it to run during the installation of the package. Are there any special tricks that I'm not aware of. After talking to the Apple rep, it sounded like it was pretty straight forward. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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problems with prefllight and postflight scripts
by Gregory Adair 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

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Re: Is there/will there be uninstall supported in PackageMaker v3.0?
by Martin Bestmann 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On 13.11.2007, at 11:32, Don Montalvo wrote: - Martin _______________________________________________________ Martin Bestmann www.lanrev.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.… "Perbix, Michael" <PERBIX(a)lmsd.org> wrote: FYI, InstallEase from LANRev has an option to create an Uninstall package when you use it to create the install package...all it does is create an empty installer with a shell script removing everything that was installed. -Mike Does it restore updated files that were overwritten? Does it set [back] permissions that were changed during the install? Just curious how effective a script that "removes everything that was installed" would be? No, we only remove the files. We do not keep trace of what has happens previously and restore those things. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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