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Re: need help on my first install script
by Peter Bierman 04 May '07

04 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com This particular package is a sub-package of a metapackage. The program ("foo") is in the sub-package's Resources folder. My preupgrade script (also in Resources) basically just does this: [preflight] #!/bin/sh $1/Contents/Resources/foo For one, double quotes around your path, in case there's a space in it. -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 10:17 AM -0500 5/4/07, Paul Miller wrote: I have a command-line program that needs admin privileges in my installer package's Resources folder. I want to run this program before an upgrade. But when I run my installer, it exits with an error but doesn't tell me what went wrong. What am I missing? Another tip: you can log into the installer log using the command line tool 'logger -p install.debug' This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: postflight script failed
by Mike 04 May '07

04 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Macintosh/20070326) The docs specifically say shell scripts and binary executables only. -m ========== — F On May 2, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Bill Coderre wrote: Personally, I've never tried ruby and I'm no expert on magic cookies. Did you remove any extension from the script's filename? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/lists%40michael-amoros… _______________________________________________ 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.… Fritz Anderson wrote: Well, I learned the minimal amount of shell scripting needed to duplicate my test-case postflight, and the /bin/sh version worked. This is very, very odd. Why shouldn't the installer work with just any UNIX executable? I'm tempted to say there's some residual bug, other than the use of Ruby, that prevented the Ruby postflight from working. I was under the impression that any unix executable can work, and that includes binaries and text files with the usual Unix "magic cookies" at the top. Here at Apple, we use a LOT of perl with this "magic cookie": #!/usr/bin/perl Maybe the guy who thinks the magic cookie is wrong is barking up the right tree. On May 2, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Mike wrote: Fritz Anderson wrote: On May 2, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Mike wrote: The script needs to be named "postflight", not "postflight.sh" for example. Yes, indeed I did. In fact, the script in question has always been named "postflight," and has never had any extension. (And I just now checked in a Finder Info window to verify this.) Anyway, if the script had the wrong name, surely Installer.app would never notice it at all, rather than log a message about failing to run it? An off-list correspondent suggests that a Ruby script — even in the form of an executable beginning with "#! /usr/bin/env ruby" — might be illegal in a postflight role. I doubt this, but is it possible? — F Fritz Anderson wrote: I have in my package a script named 'postflight'. It appears in the Contents/Resources directory of the package. It has the executable bits set. It is a Ruby script, with the first line being #! /usr/bin/env ruby . Whenever I try the installer, the only error appearing in the log is this: <date> <hostname> : Install failed: The following install step failed: run postflight script for <myPackageName> ... This email sent to lists(a)michael-amorose.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: need help on my first install script
by Alexander von Below 04 May '07

04 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Am 04.05.2007 um 17:36 schrieb Paul Miller: Alex _______________________________________________ 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.… Can I assume foo is running with admin privileges since the package is tagged with "Require Admin"? My memory fails me, but I do not think that is safe to assume. Put and `id` in there for debugging to find out what the script is running at. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: need help on my first install script
by Paul Miller 04 May '07

04 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) This particular package is a sub-package of a metapackage. The program ("foo") is in the sub-package's Resources folder. My preupgrade script (also in Resources) basically just does this: [preflight] #!/bin/sh $1/Contents/Resources/foo It seems I might have simply missed an "exit 0" at the end of the script. -- Paul Miller | paul(a)fxtech.com | www.fxtech.com | Got Tivo? _______________________________________________ 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.… Paul Miller wrote: I have a command-line program that needs admin privileges in my installer package's Resources folder. I want to run this program before an upgrade. But when I run my installer, it exits with an error but doesn't tell me what went wrong. What am I missing? Can I assume foo is running with admin privileges since the package is tagged with "Require Admin"? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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need help on my first install script
by Paul Miller 04 May '07

04 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) This particular package is a sub-package of a metapackage. The program ("foo") is in the sub-package's Resources folder. My preupgrade script (also in Resources) basically just does this: [preflight] #!/bin/sh $1/Contents/Resources/foo What am I missing? -- Paul Miller | paul(a)fxtech.com | www.fxtech.com | Got Tivo? _______________________________________________ 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 command-line program that needs admin privileges in my installer package's Resources folder. I want to run this program before an upgrade. But when I run my installer, it exits with an error but doesn't tell me what went wrong. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: postflight script failed
by Fritz Anderson 04 May '07

04 May '07

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Re: postflight script failed
by Stéphane Sudre 03 May '07

03 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On vendredi, mai 4, 2007, at 12:28 AM, Fritz Anderson 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.… Well, I learned the minimal amount of shell scripting needed to duplicate my test-case postflight, and the /bin/sh version worked. This is very, very odd. Why shouldn't the installer work with just any UNIX executable? You didn't mention whether changing the magic cookie improved the result or not. Did it? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: postflight script failed
by Bill Coderre 03 May '07

03 May '07

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Re: postflight script failed
by Peter Bierman 03 May '07

03 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com It does work with any UNIX executable. You didn't specify the full path to ruby in your earlier example. Does this work? #!/usr/bin/ruby -pmb - F On May 2, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Bill Coderre wrote: Personally, I've never tried ruby and I'm no expert on magic cookies. Fritz Anderson wrote: On May 2, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Mike wrote: Did you remove any extension from the script's filename? Fritz Anderson 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/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.… At 5:28 PM -0500 5/3/07, Fritz Anderson wrote: Well, I learned the minimal amount of shell scripting needed to duplicate my test-case postflight, and the /bin/sh version worked. This is very, very odd. Why shouldn't the installer work with just any UNIX executable? I'm tempted to say there's some residual bug, other than the use of Ruby, that prevented the Ruby postflight from working. I was under the impression that any unix executable can work, and that includes binaries and text files with the usual Unix "magic cookies" at the top. Here at Apple, we use a LOT of perl with this "magic cookie": #!/usr/bin/perl Maybe the guy who thinks the magic cookie is wrong is barking up the right tree. On May 2, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Mike wrote: The script needs to be named "postflight", not "postflight.sh" for example. Yes, indeed I did. In fact, the script in question has always been named "postflight," and has never had any extension. (And I just now checked in a Finder Info window to verify this.) Anyway, if the script had the wrong name, surely Installer.app would never notice it at all, rather than log a message about failing to run it? An off-list correspondent suggests that a Ruby script - even in the form of an executable beginning with "#! /usr/bin/env ruby" - might be illegal in a postflight role. I doubt this, but is it possible? - F I have in my package a script named 'postflight'. It appears in the Contents/Resources directory of the package. It has the executable bits set. It is a Ruby script, with the first line being #! /usr/bin/env ruby . Whenever I try the installer, the only error appearing in the log is this: <date> <hostname> : Install failed: The following install step failed: run postflight script for <myPackageName> This email sent to bierman(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: postflight script failed
by Fritz Anderson 03 May '07

03 May '07

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