February 2007 - Installer-dev

metapackage description...
by Benjamin Lam 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

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Dylan Hyndman is out of the office.
by Dylan.Hyndman＠cumbria.ac.uk 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

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Re: Detecting the installed version of Xcode
by Stéphane Sudre 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On vendredi, février 16, 2007, at 09:22 PM, Goldfarb, Tammy A wrote: Which version number are you interested in? The marketing version (2.3)? or The components version: IDE, Core, Toolsupport (744.0, 747.0, 733.0)? For the last 2, this solution can be interesting: xcodebuild -version _______________________________________________ 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.… What is the best way to detect the installed version of Xcode? But I'm pretty sure a better solution for the last 3 is to check the Info.plist of the DevToolsInterface, DevToolsCore and DevToolsSupport framework in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks. Regarding the marketing version, I would tend to believe the info is only in the Info.plist of the Xcode application and while I would bet that 99.99% of Xcode users haven't moved the application out of the /Developers/Applications folder, nothing prevents it. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Detecting the installed version of Xcode
by Peter Bierman 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com At 12:22 PM -0800 2/16/07, Goldfarb, Tammy A wrote: See: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/LaunchServicesRef… -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.… What is the best way to detect the installed version of Xcode? Generally, the best way to answer questions like that is to get as close to the authoritative answer as possible. In this case, you want to know the CFBundleShortVersionString in the Info.plist of the Xcode.app which is _probably_ located in /Developer/Applications. Since apps can move around on Mac OS X, you should ask LaunchServices where to find com.apple.Xcode. In particular, LSFindApplicationForInfo() to find Xcode, and then NSBundle or CFBundle APIs to get the CFBundleShortVersionString (marketing version), or CFBundleVersion (build #). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Detecting the installed version of Xcode
by Goldfarb, Tammy A 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

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Re: Can we use applescript in packagemaker as postflight script?
by Scott Russell 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

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RE: Can we use applescript in packagemaker as postflight script?
by Manish Chaturvedi 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

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Re: Adding items to the Dock
by Joshua Levitsky 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com -Josh On Feb 15, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Matt Ziebell wrote: _______________________________________________ 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 DockItemMaker DockItemMaker If the attachment doesn't make it through the MailMan list software I sent this to you directly as well. Attached is a script I took from GarageBand's installer. You make this your postflight (or if you borrow the way Apple does it then put it in your postflight_actions folder) and put PlistBuddy in your PKG's Resources folder. PlistBuddy can be found hanging out in /Library/Receipts within various installers. I like this script (even if I mangled it to be slightly ugly because of my poor Perl skills).. it will add something to the dock of all your user accounts on the machine plus to the Default User template.. at least the English default user. You could take this and make it do more maybe. Originally I think the Garage Band version of this didn't do the default user template. This should work for 10.3, 10.4, and I imagine future versions of OS X if the dock plist doesn't change. In light of the helpful feedback from Joshua Levistsky regarding "recommended way to install something into /Library/StartupItems" I welcome thoughts about a recommended script for adding items to the Dock? Especially with 10.3 and 10.4 support, as I've seen 10.3 and 10.4 behave differently for some tasks (such as license and readme presentation) and want to be sure to have full support for this task. Thank you, Matt _______________________________________________ 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/jlevitsk% 40joshie.com This email sent to jlevitsk(a)joshie.com

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Adding items to the Dock
by Matt Ziebell 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thank you, Matt _______________________________________________ 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 light of the helpful feedback from Joshua Levistsky regarding "recommended way to install something into /Library/StartupItems" I welcome thoughts about a recommended script for adding items to the Dock? Especially with 10.3 and 10.4 support, as I've seen 10.3 and 10.4 behave differently for some tasks (such as license and readme presentation) and want to be sure to have full support for this task. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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RE: recommended way to install something into /Library/StartupItems?
by Benjamin Lam 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcdRQQsCDhy59t9GRt2FxYhyQSf8zQAAOXDw Thread-topic: recommended way to install something into /Library/StartupItems? Thanks to Stephane, Aaron & Joshua for the responses. I'm just going to create the structure when building my package. Fortunately, I need not be worrying about 10.2 for this project. Thank you kindly and have a great day, Ben Lam Software Developer, Build/Install SMART Technologies Inc. email/MSN: blam(a)smarttech.com | tel: 403.802.3328 Men are respectable only as they respect. -Ralph Waldo Emerson > -----Original Message----- > From: Stéphane Sudre [mailto:ssudre2@wanadoo.fr] > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:31 PM > To: Benjamin Lam > Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com > Subject: Re: recommended way to install something into > /Library/StartupItems? > > As others pointed, it's easy to do it and it works. > > The only issue I know with Packages and /Library/StartupItems was on > 10.2.x (as IIRC 10.2 is when the owner and group moved from root admin > to root wheel without any clear official warning). > > The issue was that it was not possible to set the owner and group to > root:wheel using the package. There is probably a bug in Installer.app > regarding this. The solution was to set the permissions in the > postflight script. > > So if you need to install on Mac OS X 10.1 or 10.2, test that. If you > don't, forget about this issue. > > My $0.02 > > On jeudi, février 15, 2007, at 06:31 PM, Benjamin Lam wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > What is the recommended way to install something into > > /Library/StartupItems? I need to put some items in there, can I just > > create the Library/StartupItems structure with the items when I create > > the package or should I copy the items in during postflight? > > > > > > > > If I just create the package with the Library/StartupItems structure > > and if other software puts items in there, then my package runs, it > > won't 'reset' the Library/StartupItems folder will it, deleting the > > other items (to match the given structure in my package) will it? > > > > > > > > TIA. > > > > > > > > Thank you kindly and have a great day, > _______________________________________________ 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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