June 2007 - Installer-dev - lists.apple.com

Destination Folder
by Howard Shere 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

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Re: Installer Plug-ins in Distribution Package?
by Gary Pederson 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '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:in-reply-to:references:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=a22Rtgs0S6IwqDnj5/SRKX8l3P4harjPMsrwOdcw9jA7Vzbzm8AP9LgPD4GzubsOOkzqriC2AapTDpVZ4rd/Tr1vD6fqVSLEn8lJtIjea3BraloY/NrKqmRe8E81Mbg8B5BG/tawA7h+ZoQdkNS63F/euLq6CmHLm6lIJOmnwPQ= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=ivdohMheKr4GldcJ6NEtZp1a+AwLlS3p4FHEsYDmtnl+DLEe6OvTYAV7ang/1Vx+SCWTu+sJYjtkZXTQ30EpfoUe08QanatpeyG0TjiqquArQ07OsoFRQbYln7VRPF3f3Gwa26P617AyaGRCioB0JiuDRoPac1P8m6icgQXiC8M= On Jun 11, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Gary Pederson wrote: How do I add an installer plug-in to distribution package? _______________________________________________ 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.… FYI: On a whim I copied the Plugins folder from a regular mpkg into the built distribution mpkg and it seems to work. Now if I could only figure out why my IFRequirementDicts work in my pkg installers, work when those pkgs are in a regular mpkg, but don't work when those pkgs are in a distribution mpkg. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Installer Plug-ins in Distribution Package?
by Gary Pederson 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

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Automate Setting Default Permissions
by Mark Coniglio 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi, Must be a way to do this, no? Thanks in advance, Mark -- ===================================================================== Mark Coniglio, Artistic Co-Director | mark(a)troikaranch.org Troika Ranch Dance Theater | http://www.troikaranch.org ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ 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 use package maker to create my installers. But I was wondering of there was a way to use AppleScript or some other kind of script to automatically set the Permissions for the application and the 150 or so plugins contained inside my application. I am just trying to avoid having to babysit the app as I first choose "Apply Recommendations" and then choose OK. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Forcing Fresh Install With PackageMaker
by Justin Williams 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Greetings, Thanks for your help. I'm modifying a metapackage that installs a few applications as well as some other miscellaneous files in the /Library folder. I am trying to find a way to force Installer to perform a fresh install each time it runs on a machine so that I can ensure that users have the latest version of their unique keys (each package is generated on the fly). The solution path I'm am trying to take is creating a script at InstallationCheck that deletes the receipts for the 4 packages inside my metapackage. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working because the installer isn't authenticated at the time. Is there a best practice I can use to ensure the fresh installation of a package each time I run an Installer? - Justin Williams carpeaqua justin(a)carpeaqua.com http://carpeaqua.com/ - Check out Porchlight: bug tracking for small teams <http:// www.porchlightnow.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: [slightly OT] uniquely identifying a computer
by Mark Coniglio 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Getting the MAC Address of the Ethernet card seems like the best method to me. Best, Mark Hi, TIA, Chad _______________________________________________ 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/mark%40troikaranch.org -- ===================================================================== Mark Coniglio, Artistic Co-Director | mark(a)troikaranch.org Troika Ranch Dance Theater | http://www.troikaranch.org ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ 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.… Apologies if this is a little off topic for this list, but hopefully someone can help me. During my installation, I want to get a SN from the user and some other unique identifying characteristics of the machine. I need some advice on which characteristics would be good to use and how to obtain them -- every search I do seems to turn up a decade-old tech note (TN 1103) but I'm having trouble finding anything current. Does anyone know if there is an updated version of this document, or if there's somewhere else I should be looking? This email sent to mark(a)troikaranch.org This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Adding item to Dock
by david savage 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

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Re: Localized package file name?
by Mark Krenek 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com I'll test under L. M On Jun 6, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Bill Coderre wrote: On Jun 6, 2007, at 3:36 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: On mercredi, juin 6, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Bill Coderre 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/mark%40aspyr.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.… Thanks guys. I had already created a "launcher app" to embed the .pkg file inside, just like the Read Me app talked about. I was just hoping for a more simple solution. ... HOWEVER, there is a chance that some people might be surprised or worried, since this "smells" like a typical internet "trojan" attack vector. (I think there was some uproar about this in the past.) IIRC, Apple used this for some ReadMe file on an install CD. I haven't read somewhere about people being surprised (and this would be the same persons that are offended with the DRM-Free songs). Ah yes, many Apple "Read Me" type files are actually .apps that launch to show the correct language version of the file based on the user's language preferences. Also you should test with "forthcoming releases" to see exactly what happens. (I don't think I'm allowed to discuss "the cat whose name starts with L" on this list.) Linux? More of a Great Cat than a Flightless Bird, actually. (And yes, Apple had a sequence of internal code names based on flightless birds, but I can't recall what they were used for. I definitely recall emu, kiwi, penguin, and rhea, but I don't think we did cassowary or ostrich. And yes, we had auk, even though modern auks can fly, and only the extinct Great Auk could not. Auk was just too good to pass up.) This email sent to mark(a)aspyr.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Adding item to Dock
by Stéphane Sudre 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Do you require some admin or root authentication in your package? On jeudi, juin 7, 2007, at 06:55 PM, Andy Rosado wrote: #!/bin/sh killall -HUP Dock exit 0 Thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ 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 found and tried to follow other posts about adding items to the dock during install, The problem I am having is that the script I wrote does not work as a postflight but it does work when I run it directly from Terminal. I can tell that the package is running the script because I can see the dock refresh. The script is simply: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '<dict><key>tile-data</key><dict><key>file-data</ key><dict><key>_CFURLString </key><string>/Applications/test.txt</string><key>_CFURLStringType</ key><int eger>0</integer></dict></dict></dict>' _______________________________________________ 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/ ssudre2%40wanadoo.fr This email sent to ssudre2(a)wanadoo.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Metapackage questions
by Stéphane Sudre 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On jeudi, juin 7, 2007, at 02:58 PM, James Nierodzik 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.… Using Iceberg to build the packages, but can use the command line or the packagemaker GUI if needed. Is there a way to have the installer show the custom install options rather than defaulting to easy install? I have 5 components in my metapackage one of which is selected as required.. I need the user to select one of the other 4 so would like custom to show rather than easy. A distribution script would let you do that. This means PackageMaker and Terminal. Additionally while there is a way to make regular packages require admin access I see no way to make a metapackage require admin access.. is this possible? (for one of the scripts that the package runs). A metapackage inherits the most restrictive authorization requirements of its children. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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