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Mass Deployment of pkg
by david savage 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

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Re: Installer project directory clarifications
by Stéphane Sudre 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On dimanche, mars 25, 2007, at 06:20 PM, Mike wrote: So my two questions are: - (I1) put everything in one package - (I2) put different components in different package. I1 is the simplest and most common solution. I2 might be used in the following cases (the list is not exhaustive): My 0.01503€ _______________________________________________ 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 to make a single-package installer that contains all my product's files but I also want to be able to have that package be deliverable in a Managed Install via Apple Remote Desktop 3. The Software Delivery Guide is a little unclear as to exactly which installer packages can and cannot be delivered via this method. In the fourth chapter it says "Packages contain a product or a product components", but then later on page 31 the directory hierarchy appears to require a separate "component" directory for each component in the install. What if I only want one package but multiple component directories in that package? 1) What is the proper directory hierarchy for a single project directory full of a variety of product files for a single package and 2) is the directory hierarchy listed on page 31 mandatory - that is, does the installer actually read the directory hierarchy and then execute the other items such as "extras" at runtime? The proper directory hierarchy is the one you choose after having considered your needs. Basically, you have 2 possible roads: - your product uses some components that are shared with other products. You then may want to group the shared components in a different package to be able to update them independently. (Example: you use some shared libraries or you need other components to be installed and they are already distributed as a package). - some of the components of your products may not be installed if some requirements are not satisfied. Or you have different versions of a component and you need to install one or the other depending on some requirements. (Example: Kernel Extensions for < 10.4 and >=10.4). - some components are not mandatory and you would like to let the user decide whether these components needs to be installed or not. (Example: localizations, examples, goodies, etc.) But there's really no interest in creating a package per raw components (application, associated frameworks, Application Support sub folder, etc...) This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Installer project directory clarifications
by Mike 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) So my two questions are: Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ 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 to make a single-package installer that contains all my product's files but I also want to be able to have that package be deliverable in a Managed Install via Apple Remote Desktop 3. The Software Delivery Guide is a little unclear as to exactly which installer packages can and cannot be delivered via this method. In the fourth chapter it says "Packages contain a product or a product components", but then later on page 31 the directory hierarchy appears to require a separate "component" directory for each component in the install. What if I only want one package but multiple component directories in that package? 1) What is the proper directory hierarchy for a single project directory full of a variety of product files for a single package and 2) is the directory hierarchy listed on page 31 mandatory - that is, does the installer actually read the directory hierarchy and then execute the other items such as "extras" at runtime? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Detecting CPU Speed
by Gary Pederson 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:content-type:to:from:subject:date:x-mailer; b=LDbOsKh+KuyAYQvZ/KxKNAfku/WVT+Rz/C7C0q4USiCsIlkRv0nYKhu2zZbmiNGvUJSqnM4mEBJMqKGQxQ9sYfn8t5U0jrbz2nvEYLwQbWCnmbJwow1yirPXbBpe+PmSWHsXe6d0iwREsO1Zz9WvjNQvOyIaw/+A5EzWOAjc+Yg= 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=Ywb15O1z23H4h9ePfiLYBOguMM5NVc+JFaP6Pf+MLOnbtNgN+qWbfnNvulHmhdCsko7jFcg9v6peSQTZb/iKPMf6cVXc3c35kBi7UbeIWunlooSeE1Clfq7bGB0IE9cl/pzHs18roHbXFkaw4/YNy84n3JE+d4oW/P3hXaLeRNo= On those systems, sysctl returns hw.cpufrequency: 533333332 hw.cpufrequency_min: 533333332 hw.cpufrequency_max: 533333332 When it should report hw.cpufrequency: 867000000 hw.cpufrequency_min: 533333332 hw.cpufrequency_max: 867000000 Thanks, Gary Pederson _______________________________________________ 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've been detecting CPU speed in my InstallationCheck scripts using `sysctl -n hw.cpufrequency` and `sysctl -n hw.cpufrequency_max` These are returning the correct values on most machines, but the wrong values on other machines (at least 867MHz G4 PowerBooks in 10.3.9) -- So some of our customers get a confusing message about their CPU being too slow. Is there a way to accurately detect the maximum cpu speed on all OS X Macs? Or at least on the ones I need to support (G4, G5, x86 -- 10.3.9 and later)? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Fixing file permissions pre-build
by Gary Pederson 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

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Fixing file permissions pre-build
by Gary Pederson 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

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by Rich Kubota 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com I received the following. Q2. To preserve Resource forks, what about using the -s option. thanks rich But, I want to invoke PackageMaker from the command line. The issues I face are: -- Sincerely, Rich Kubota rkubota(a)apple.com (408) 974-6212 _______________________________________________ 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.… Q1 - Is there an undocumented command line packagemaker option to manipulate the file permissions as he asks below. Seems like he should be able to do this himself with a script better than packagemaker could do. As part of our daily development routine, I have a machine that, once a day, builds my application using the most recently available source from my repository. This is all accomplished automatically using shell scripts triggered from a launchd task, and this has worked well. I now need to take my built application, and automate the production of an installer package into this daily routine. I have a .pmproj file that I have used periodically to build the package. Using the PackageMaker UI, everything works fine. 1: I cannot set the recommended file permissions for the installer sources from the command line via PackageMaker. 2: I cannot preserve resource forks without authorizing, which can only be done via the UI. I do not want to work my way through each file/directory individually for step 1, my app contains 2738 items. This is subject to change daily and would be a major headache to maintain a matching script. Is there a way to accomplish my goals? Are there some undocumented command line switches for Package Maker to achieve this result? Is there a shell script you can share that will set the permissions? If necessary I can convert my resources to data fork based files, so (2) has a workaround, but I hope you have a better one. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Postgres within installer sometimes does not work
by Brian Ray 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Mar 23, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Peter Elmers wrote: Hi Guys! Brian Ray bray(a)sent.com http://kazavoo.com/blog _______________________________________________ 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 trying to deploy an application together with postgresql. Therefore, i compiled postgres versions on Intel, G4 and G5. Mostly, this works perfectly. But on some machines, the installation was successful and postgres does not start. You will have to tell us more. Did you look at the postgresql logs to see why it would not start? What did you see? I presume you are putting all that is needed by postgresql in a location other than the standard system places. You may also want to link to your own copy (of statically) on system libraries or be very careful which frameworks and libraries used by postgresql on different OS versions. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Postgres within installer sometimes does not work
by Peter Elmers 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi Guys! I am trying to deploy an application together with postgresql. Therefore, i compiled postgres versions on Intel, G4 and G5. Mostly, this works perfectly. But on some machines, the installation was successful and postgres does not start. Maybe one of you had this problem already? Best Regards, Peter -- "Feel free" - 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX ProMail testen: www.gmx.net/de/go/mailfooter/promail-out _______________________________________________ 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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Handy Script to detect app installed and version
by Hagen Kaye 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi List, ------------------------------------ #!/usr/bin/perl use Foundation; use Mac::Processes; # find the application from the bundle indentifier $path = LSFindApplicationForInfo (undef, "com.apple.iPhoto"); print "iPhoto found at $path\n"; # now that we have the path - get the Info.plist file of the application $file = $path . "/Contents/Info.plist"; $plist = NSDictionary->dictionaryWithContentsOfFile_( $file ); if ( ! $plist or ! $$plist ) { print "Could not find iPhoto\n"; exit 96; } # search the plist for the version number of the app $version = 0.0; $value = $plist->objectForKey_("CFBundleShortVersionString"); if ($value && $$value) { $version = $value->description()->UTF8String(); } # test version number for minimum requirements print "Version: $version\n"; if ($version < 6.0) { print "Need iPhoto 6.0 or better\n"; exit 96; } exit 0; -------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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 thought some might find this tidbit of code useful. If you are creating a package installer that requires an application to be installed and that application must have a minimum version number here is a handy perl script to detect this. It will test the presence of an app and version number and cancel the installation if the requirements are not met. This sample script will detect if iPhoto is installed and test to make sure it's at least version 6.0 or better. Substitute the parameters appropriately to detect other apps and versions Save this perl script as InstallationCheck and put in the Contents/ Resources folder of the package. More information on using a InstallationCheck script can be found by Google'ing InstallationCheck (top hit takes you to the developer page here at apple). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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