August 2007 - Installer-dev

Installer and Upgrade problems
by John Cebasek 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcfjcqlU6BYo1E9lEdyn9AAX8gGyMA== Thread-topic: Installer and Upgrade problems User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.3.6.070618 Hello All: It's been a little while since I've done an installer package, and I'm having a wee bit of trouble when doing an upgrade. Using the command line (because we're doing automated builds), I'm modifying the info.plists of various packages that are in a meta-package as follows - the CFBundleIdentifier key to be defined as something like com.vizible.xyz.$SHORT_STRING, where SHORT_STRING is defined as 0.2.8060 (or whatever the svn number is). I'm modifying CFBundleShortVersionString and CFBundleVersion to be SHORT_STRING. I'm also modifying IFMajorVersion, IFMinorVersion and IFPkgBuildVersion to be the appropriate values. The size of the one packages is changing so when I look at the receipt and look at the installer, at least one of the packages I'm trying to install has a bigger size. I do a clean install and then rebuild everything with a new build number and do an 'Upgrade', all the packages in the Customize dialog have a size of 0, and if I 'Upgrade', all the packages are installed (none are skipped). Can anyone provide a hint or two to what might be the problem with: 1 - the upgrade sizes are 0; and 2 - the upgrade is installing everything even though the size of the packages are zero. Thanks in advance for your time. Best Regards John Cebasek _______________________________________________ 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: Problems installing on OS X 10.2.8
by Julian Devlin 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hope that helps. -Julian On Aug 17, 2007, at 4:19 PM, cohen.rick(a)gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Thanks! This email sent to juliand(a)sassafras.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.… Does the default install directory exist on the 10.2 machine? If I remember correctly, I saw this error on 10.2 when the directory did not exist - I had to change the install location to one directory further up, and have the other directory be part of what got installed. e.g instead of installing foo.app in /Applications/sometimesthere/, install sometimesthere/foo.app in /Applications/ I have an installer that I built on OS X 10.4.9 (using Iceberg 1.2.2), and it seems to run OK on machines running OS X 10.4 and 10.3. I don't have a 10.2 machine, but I got my friend to run the installer and it fails. It doesn't seem to get very far into the installation process. The failure occurs before any of my script files, so I don't have any of my own messages in the log file. Here is the log file: Foo app Installation Log Target Selection _volumeAppeared: Adding volume Macintosh HD _volumeAppeared: Adding volume Snave75 _volumeAppeared: disabled Snave75 because package can only be install onto root volume. deactivate: removing all cells from _volumeMatrix Selected volume "Macintosh HD" Mounted at: / OpenFirmware: mac-io/ata-4@1f000/@0:5 Partition type: HFS+ Partition map: disk0s5 Partition: 5 Protocol: ATA Media Type: Generic Volume Size: 61487677440 Install Failed Error detected Name: NSInvalidArgumentException Reason: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value Any ideas on what might be happening? - Rick Cohen _______________________________________________ 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/juliand% 40sassafras.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Problems installing on OS X 10.2.8
by cohen.rick＠gmail.com 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

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Information on -pkginfo -verbose
by Andrei Tarassov 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Acfg3rxa7ESM5lnuT8+e/b+PekHjcA== Thread-topic: Information on -pkginfo -verbose Hi! I would like to know what the meanings of some fields of verbose package information reported by the command line installer: # installer -pkginfo -verbose -pkg AltirisAgent.pkg Package information: Title : Dummy Package Message : This item is required. Package : Dummy Package Must Authenticate : YES Description : Dummy Package Description Size : 31799 KB Status : Fail Will Restart : NO I am interested in what the Message and Status fields stand for. Especially when I get a Message like "DummyPackage cannot be installed on this computer". Thanks, _____________________________________ Andrei Tarassov Sr Software Engineer Symantec Estonia www.Symantec.com _____________________________________ Office: (+372) 650 7154 Mobile: (+372) 5340 3298 _____________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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: Problem with metapackage postinstall task on OS X 10.3.9
by cohen.rick＠gmail.com 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

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Re: Problem with metapackage postinstall task on OS X 10.3.9
by Stéphane Sudre 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On mercredi, août 15, 2007, at 07:44 PM, cohen.rick(a)gmail.com wrote: I have a stupid suggestion. Wouldn't it make sense to just have a postflight script? _______________________________________________ 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.… A bit more information. My installer did run the postinstall for the metapackage the 2nd time I ran it. That is because my installer also deletes receipts in the postflight scripts, so the installer never "upgrades". Unfortunately, I used a bad naming convention for the packages and my package name matched another that was in my receipts folder. So, because one of the packages was an "upgrade", the metapackage postinstall never ran. I don't really understand that, but there it is. What's surprising is that you're seeing the postinstall script of the two packages being run. Since you delete the receipts after installation, why do you bother with 2 scripts for each package (postinstall and postflight)? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Problem with metapackage postinstall task on OS X 10.3.9
by cohen.rick＠gmail.com 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

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Problem with metapackage postinstall task on OS X 10.3.9
by cohen.rick＠gmail.com 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

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Info.Plist AND PackageMaker Snapshot
by James_Tonnessen＠discovery.com 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

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Re: Permissions for User and /Library install
by Bill Coderre 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

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