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Re: command-line build Distribution Package
by Kevin Packard 03 May '07

03 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com A followup: On May 3, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Kevin Packard wrote: Beautiful - thank you! -- Kevin Packard On May 3, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Arne Scheffler (ext) wrote: arne Hello, Any help much appreciated. The dirty details: - from within Package Maker, my pmproj builds a working mpkg file - and I see the following build errors: Missing identifier field for "Package1.pkg" Missing identifier field for "Package2.pkg" Missing size field for "Package1.pkg" Missing size field for "Package2.pkg" thanks, -- Kevin Packard _______________________________________________ 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 problem is with PackageMaker's interpretation of project-relative paths when referencing pkg files for distribution. When I switch to absolute path references inside of the Distribution Package pmproj file, the command-line produces the correct mpkg file. I can work around this problem in my automation script by dynamically setting absolute paths in the pmproj file, then invoking PackageMaker. As the distribution script is xml, you can build that file yourself with other tools. I used ruby's REXML in one of my projects. Kevin Packard wrote: Hello, I've still not solved building a Distribution Package from the command line. I've filed a bug. Are developers just not using Distribution Package? If they are, how are developers automating the build process? thanks, -- Kevin Packard On May 1, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Kevin Packard wrote: I'm having trouble building a Distribution Package from the command line. There are a couple of other references to this problem, but I haven't seen any solutions (http:// lists.apple.com/archives/installer-dev/2006/Sep/msg00057.html and http://lists.apple.com/archives/installer-dev/2006/Oct/ msg00062.html) Is this a known bug, or is there a solution? If this is a known bug, how are people automating the Checkout, Build, Build Installer process on OS X? - from the command line, I build the pmproj with: /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/ MacOS/PackageMaker -build -proj Installer.pmproj -ds -p ./ Installer.mpkg - and the resulting mpkg fails to install with the following error: Failed to locate package at path Installer.mpkg/Contents/ Packages/(null) - when comparing the good and bad mpkg files, only the Contents/ distribution.dist is different _______________________________________________ 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/kevinpackard %40mac.com This email sent to kevinpackard(a)mac.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/a.scheffler% 40steinberg.de This email sent to a.scheffler(a)steinberg.de - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, Neuer Hoeltigbaum 22-32, D-22143 Hamburg, Germany Phone: +49 (40) 21035-0 | Fax: +49 (40) 21035-300 | www.steinberg.netManaging Director: Kazunori Kobayashi, Mitsuru Umemura, Takuya Nakata Registration Court: Hamburg HRB 86534 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _______________________________________________ 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/kevinpackard% 40mac.com This email sent to kevinpackard(a)mac.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/kevinpackard% 40mac.com This email sent to kevinpackard(a)mac.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: command-line build Distribution Package
by Kevin Packard 03 May '07

03 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Beautiful - thank you! -- Kevin Packard On May 3, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Arne Scheffler (ext) wrote: arne Hello, Any help much appreciated. The dirty details: - from within Package Maker, my pmproj builds a working mpkg file - and I see the following build errors: Missing identifier field for "Package1.pkg" Missing identifier field for "Package2.pkg" Missing size field for "Package1.pkg" Missing size field for "Package2.pkg" thanks, -- Kevin Packard _______________________________________________ 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.… As the distribution script is xml, you can build that file yourself with other tools. I used ruby's REXML in one of my projects. Kevin Packard wrote: Hello, I've still not solved building a Distribution Package from the command line. I've filed a bug. Are developers just not using Distribution Package? If they are, how are developers automating the build process? thanks, -- Kevin Packard On May 1, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Kevin Packard wrote: I'm having trouble building a Distribution Package from the command line. There are a couple of other references to this problem, but I haven't seen any solutions (http://lists.apple.com/ archives/installer-dev/2006/Sep/msg00057.html and http:// lists.apple.com/archives/installer-dev/2006/Oct/msg00062.html) Is this a known bug, or is there a solution? If this is a known bug, how are people automating the Checkout, Build, Build Installer process on OS X? - from the command line, I build the pmproj with: /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/ MacOS/PackageMaker -build -proj Installer.pmproj -ds -p ./ Installer.mpkg - and the resulting mpkg fails to install with the following error: Failed to locate package at path Installer.mpkg/Contents/ Packages/(null) - when comparing the good and bad mpkg files, only the Contents/ distribution.dist is different _______________________________________________ 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/kevinpackard% 40mac.com This email sent to kevinpackard(a)mac.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/a.scheffler% 40steinberg.de This email sent to a.scheffler(a)steinberg.de - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, Neuer Hoeltigbaum 22-32, D-22143 Hamburg, Germany Phone: +49 (40) 21035-0 | Fax: +49 (40) 21035-300 | www.steinberg.netManaging Director: Kazunori Kobayashi, Mitsuru Umemura, Takuya Nakata Registration Court: Hamburg HRB 86534 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _______________________________________________ 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/kevinpackard% 40mac.com This email sent to kevinpackard(a)mac.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: command-line build Distribution Package
by Arne Scheffler (ext) 03 May '07

03 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) arne Hello, thanks, -- Kevin Packard On May 1, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Kevin Packard wrote: Hello, Any help much appreciated. The dirty details: - from within Package Maker, my pmproj builds a working mpkg file - and I see the following build errors: Missing identifier field for "Package1.pkg" Missing identifier field for "Package2.pkg" Missing size field for "Package1.pkg" Missing size field for "Package2.pkg" thanks, -- Kevin Packard This email sent to a.scheffler(a)steinberg.de _______________________________________________ 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.… As the distribution script is xml, you can build that file yourself with other tools. I used ruby's REXML in one of my projects. Kevin Packard wrote: I've still not solved building a Distribution Package from the command line. I've filed a bug. Are developers just not using Distribution Package? If they are, how are developers automating the build process? I'm having trouble building a Distribution Package from the command line. There are a couple of other references to this problem, but I haven't seen any solutions (http://lists.apple.com/archives/installer-dev/2006/Sep/msg00057.html and http://lists.apple.com/archives/installer-dev/2006/Oct/msg00062.html) Is this a known bug, or is there a solution? If this is a known bug, how are people automating the Checkout, Build, Build Installer process on OS X? - from the command line, I build the pmproj with: /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/PackageMaker -build -proj Installer.pmproj -ds -p ./Installer.mpkg - and the resulting mpkg fails to install with the following error: Failed to locate package at path Installer.mpkg/Contents/Packages/(null) - when comparing the good and bad mpkg files, only the Contents/distribution.dist is different _______________________________________________ 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/kevinpackard%40mac.com This email sent to kevinpackard(a)mac.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/a.scheffler%40steinber… - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, Neuer Hoeltigbaum 22-32, D-22143 Hamburg, Germany Phone: +49 (40) 21035-0 | Fax: +49 (40) 21035-300 | www.steinberg.netManaging Director: Kazunori Kobayashi, Mitsuru Umemura, Takuya Nakata Registration Court: Hamburg HRB 86534 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: command-line build Distribution Package
by Kevin Packard 03 May '07

03 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello, thanks, -- Kevin Packard On May 1, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Kevin Packard wrote: Hello, Any help much appreciated. The dirty details: - from within Package Maker, my pmproj builds a working mpkg file - and I see the following build errors: Missing identifier field for "Package1.pkg" Missing identifier field for "Package2.pkg" Missing size field for "Package1.pkg" Missing size field for "Package2.pkg" thanks, -- Kevin Packard _______________________________________________ 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 still not solved building a Distribution Package from the command line. I've filed a bug. Are developers just not using Distribution Package? If they are, how are developers automating the build process? I'm having trouble building a Distribution Package from the command line. There are a couple of other references to this problem, but I haven't seen any solutions (http://lists.apple.com/archives/ installer-dev/2006/Sep/msg00057.html and http://lists.apple.com/ archives/installer-dev/2006/Oct/msg00062.html) Is this a known bug, or is there a solution? If this is a known bug, how are people automating the Checkout, Build, Build Installer process on OS X? - from the command line, I build the pmproj with: /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -build -proj Installer.pmproj -ds -p ./Installer.mpkg - and the resulting mpkg fails to install with the following error: Failed to locate package at path Installer.mpkg/Contents/Packages/ (null) - when comparing the good and bad mpkg files, only the Contents/ distribution.dist is different _______________________________________________ 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/kevinpackard% 40mac.com This email sent to kevinpackard(a)mac.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: postflight script failed
by Bill Coderre 02 May '07

02 May '07

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Re: postflight script failed
by Steve Stockman 02 May '07

02 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AceNDJkJ16ZxgPj/EdukiQADk3wqpg== Thread-topic: postflight script failed User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.3.3.061214 [Trying again using different return address...] I think the problem may lie in the first line of the script. ("#! /usr/bin/env ruby") You don't specify a full path to the ruby interpreter. You also don't appear to be modifying the environment with the /usr/bin/env invocation, so why go through that? Why not just set the first line to "#!/usr/bin/ruby" ? -- Steve Stockman Software Architect Consumer Products - Macintosh Symantec Corporation Office: 402-296-4026 Fax: 402-296-2026 Email: steve_stockman(a)symantec.com www.symantec.com > From: Fritz Anderson <FRITZA(a)MANOVERBOARD.ORG> > Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 14:20:54 -0500 > To: <installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com> > Subject: postflight script failed > > 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> > > The postflight script indeed has had none of its intended effects, > even when I reduce it to deleting the installed payload. I have lots > of debugging prints (both to stdout and stderr), but nothing from the > script nor prints, not scripting errors shows up in the install > log or the console. > > The task is to take a target directory installed in /Users/Shared, > recursively set the ownership of a subdirectory to ENV['USER'] ($USER > for shell fans), and move the subdirectory to ~/Library/Application\ > Support, if such a folder does not already exist. It then deletes the > wrapper directory from /Users/Shared. > > The script runs correctly in the command line, from within the pkg, > and returns 0. > > What am I doing wrong? > > F > > _______________________________________________ > 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/steve_stockman%40syman… > .com > > This email sent to steve_stockman(a)symantec.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.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: postflight script failed
by Mike 02 May '07

02 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) Page 47 of the Software Delivery Guide says: Mike On May 2, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Mike wrote: Did you remove any extension from the script's filename? — F ... _______________________________________________ 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 managed installs, install operations allow you to configure the destination environment before the payload is copied to the file system and to perform additional processing afterward. To specify install operations, you use executable files (known as install operation executables) that Installer invokes at specific stages during an install, as described in “The Installation Process” (page 24). Install operation executables must be named according to the install operation you want to define. The files can be binary files or text files containing shell scripts. All install operations are optional. You define only the operations required by a packaged product. This chapter shows how you use install operation executables to define the install operations the Installer application performs in a managed install." So it would seem to be the case that, no, you can't use Ruby scripts in the installer. However, have you tried writing a shell script named postinstall and then executing the Ruby script from inside that? You could also write a small binary to run the Ruby script. That might work. Fritz Anderson 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? 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 site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: postflight script failed
by Fritz Anderson 02 May '07

02 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On May 2, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Mike wrote: Did you remove any extension from the script's filename? — F ... _______________________________________________ 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 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? 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 site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: postflight script failed
by Mike 02 May '07

02 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) Did you remove any extension from the script's filename? The script needs to be named "postflight", not "postflight.sh" for example. Mike Whenever I try the installer, the only error appearing in the log is this: What am I doing wrong? — F This email sent to lists(a)michael-amorose.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.… 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 . <date> <hostname> : Install failed: The following install step failed: run postflight script for <myPackageName> The postflight script indeed has had none of its intended effects, even when I reduce it to deleting the installed payload. I have lots of debugging prints (both to stdout and stderr), but nothing from the script — nor prints, not scripting errors — shows up in the install log or the console. The task is to take a target directory installed in /Users/Shared, recursively set the ownership of a subdirectory to ENV['USER'] ($USER for shell fans), and move the subdirectory to ~/Library/Application\ Support, if such a folder does not already exist. It then deletes the wrapper directory from /Users/Shared. The script runs correctly in the command line, from within the pkg, and returns 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/lists%40michael-amoros… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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postflight script failed
by Fritz Anderson 02 May '07

02 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com What am I doing wrong? — F _______________________________________________ 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 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> The postflight script indeed has had none of its intended effects, even when I reduce it to deleting the installed payload. I have lots of debugging prints (both to stdout and stderr), but nothing from the script — nor prints, not scripting errors — shows up in the install log or the console. The task is to take a target directory installed in /Users/Shared, recursively set the ownership of a subdirectory to ENV['USER'] ($USER for shell fans), and move the subdirectory to ~/Library/Application\ Support, if such a folder does not already exist. It then deletes the wrapper directory from /Users/Shared. The script runs correctly in the command line, from within the pkg, and returns 0. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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