January 2008 - Installer-dev

Re: Some questions about the File Filters button.
by Jack Repenning 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Jose R.C. Cruz wrote: /\.svn$ ~$ -==- Jack Repenning jackrepenning(a)tigris.org Project Owner SCPlugin http://scplugin.tigris.org "Subversion for the rest of OS X" _______________________________________________ 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 know how the 'File Filters..." button on the Contents panel of PackageMaker 3.0 is suppose to work. At first, it looks like a way to exclude certain files from being added to the list. But my attempts seem to show that this is not the case. Also, the user guide for the new PackageMaker has nothing to say about this button. Can anyone provide me with some idea how it's suppose to work? It's for a feature article that I am writing for MacTech. I, too, think that's what it's for, and I use it (including some filter values I added on my own steam), and it seems to be working just fine for me. I believe I added these two: The first is because my sources are kept in Subversion, which splatters directories named ".svn" all over for its accounting. I was getting some of these in my Package, but they disappeared when I added this filter. The second is because I use Emacs to edit text files, and it makes backups into files whose names end in ~. Again, I was getting some copied into the package, but that stopped when I added this filter. Both those changes were actually made under Tiger and an earlier PackageMaker, but I'm using the same .pmproj file (not even saving it to a .pmdoc) to build now, on Leopard, and it still seems to be working. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Some questions about the File Filters button.
by Jose R.C. Cruz 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

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Require 10.5 or higher?
by Dallas Jones 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

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Re: How is it possible to know on which OS X version you're going to install something?
by Stéphane Sudre 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:06 PM, Peter Bierman wrote: Basically, the issue is the following one: OK, so it should be feature oriented. _______________________________________________ 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 5:50 PM +0100 1/3/08, iceberg wrote: It's pretty easy to know what the OS version is. You can use command line tools, gestalts, etc. The problem is that this piece of information is inaccurate (or wrong). There is no global system version that encompasses what software updates have been applied. That'd be like asking for a version number that tells you what apps are installed. Instead, you should be checking for the presence of your specific requirements. If you know you need a certain version of a firewire driver for your electric dog polishing gizmo, check the appropriate kext. If you need specific frameworks, look for them. There are many slight variations of the OS that Apple calls 10.5.1. >From the user's point of view, they all offer the same features, and are all 10.5.1. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: How is it possible to know on which OS X version you're going to install something?
by Peter Bierman 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Basically, the issue is the following one: -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 5:50 PM +0100 1/3/08, iceberg wrote: It's pretty easy to know what the OS version is. You can use command line tools, gestalts, etc. The problem is that this piece of information is inaccurate (or wrong). There is no global system version that encompasses what software updates have been applied. That'd be like asking for a version number that tells you what apps are installed. Instead, you should be checking for the presence of your specific requirements. If you know you need a certain version of a firewire driver for your electric dog polishing gizmo, check the appropriate kext. If you need specific frameworks, look for them. There are many slight variations of the OS that Apple calls 10.5.1. >From the user's point of view, they all offer the same features, and are all 10.5.1. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: launching app post-install in leopard
by Adam Fisk 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

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Re: creating custom installer
by Stéphane Sudre 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Jan 7, 2008, at 7:49 AM, raju p wrote: Stéphane Sudre <iceberg-dev(a)orange.fr> wrote: On Jan 4, 2008, at 1:54 PM, raju p wrote: > hi all, > i am relatively new to the mac installer . i have specific > problem > > i have two pkg i have to combine them and create a new installer > > 1) thirdparty.pkg > 2) mypackage.pkg > > i have to combine these two and create a new package something like > > mymetapackage.mpkg which has thirdparty.pkg and mypackage.pkg > > * i do not any control over thirdparty.pkg and its resources > * mypackage.pkg should be installed only after installing > thirdparty.pkg > * if thirdparty.pkg is already installed it should not be installed > or upgraded through my metapackage. > > how do i achieve this functionality using a metapackage You just create a metapackage. OK, here is how to proceed on Mac OS X 10.4. 1) Open PackageMaker 2) Select the Metapackage Project line in the Assistant window 3) Click OK 4) Type in the Title Field the name you want to use for your metapackage 5) Click the "Contents" tabview item 8) Click on the round + button 10) Save the project and build it. _______________________________________________ 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.… hi thank you ,i am using 10.4 my query is how do i deselect a particular package using my scripts from a metapackage. Which OS version are you using? 6) Double-click the "Untitled.pkg" line and type the name of your package file ("thirdparty.pkg" in your example) 7) You probably want to switch the Atttributes for this line to Required. 9) Double-click the "Untitled.pkg" line and type the name of your second package file ("mypackage.pkg" in your example) You will need to have your packages (thirdparty and mypackage) at the same level as your metapackage. Now, if you want to prevent the installation of the thirdparty package whatever its version is, you will need to add an InstallationCheck script in the Resources folder of your thirdparty package so that it returns 64 whenever files from your thirdparty package are already installed on disk. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Metapackage like 10.4's packagemaker
by Stéphane Sudre 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Jan 7, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Alexander Cohen wrote: Hi, I assume you're referring to Package Maker 3 (Leopard) here. _______________________________________________ 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.… Is it possible to create a Metapackage that contais multiple packages like we used to with 10.4's packageMaker? We could create multiple packages. then create a new metapackage project and add our packages. Seems like now we have to drag all our files into the window and it creates packages and a large metapackage for us. That does not work for me since i have multiple packages that are part of different metapackages. It is possible. I think the trick is to make sure the format for your package and metapackage fits together when you do the Drag&Drop operation. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Metapackage like 10.4's packagemaker
by Alexander Cohen 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi, thanks AC _______________________________________________ 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.… Is it possible to create a Metapackage that contais multiple packages like we used to with 10.4's packageMaker? We could create multiple packages. then create a new metapackage project and add our packages. Seems like now we have to drag all our files into the window and it creates packages and a large metapackage for us. That does not work for me since i have multiple packages that are part of different metapackages. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: creating custom installer
by raju p 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

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