January 2008 - Installer-dev

bug..s PackageMaker 3.0.1 - 172
by gena2002＠excite.com 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com i am quite new with this app.. but some strange behaviour to me... what i am trying to achieve is pretty simple.. one distribution, with a custom install of 2 packages, same root for each package, some files are shared by the two packages... here the problems ... Problem 1/ even if i uncheck files (within the content of a package),they will still be installed! So what is the purpose of these check boxes, is there anyway to prevent some files to be installed in one package but not in another (apart from duplicating them and having different root folder.. that i don't want) Problem 2/ in configuration i select a destination and check allow custom destination... Now when i run the installer if i change the destination it always go to the default destination, so basically the custom destination does not work!!! Problem 3/ i am running a custom install only.. go through license, then i got destination select (the one that is not working see my previous problem) and installation type... i say continue then i got a stupid 'change install location' button that loops back to the license if i click on it!!!! How you remove this guy, what is the purpose of it, it does not seem to work! so any help, hints or clues would be appreciated because so far this program is pretty much unusable. Thanks _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ 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: Multiple InstallerSections in one plugin
by Stéphane Sudre 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Jan 5, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Mateusz Łapsa-Malawski wrote: Yes. AFAIK, no. One InstallerSection for multiple InstallerPanes. It depends on what you mean by automatically. If you mean from the PackageMaker UI: the answer is no. _______________________________________________ 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.… Hello, Based on cocoa Installer Framework, I'm creating a Mac initial configuration assistant. There is lot's of information to be provided by user and this information should be entered sequentially, preferably Pane by Pane. So far I can create one Pane plugins and glue them all in one installer but maintaing it is... incovinient. I.e. I'm storing configuration in bundle as xml file and this information is used by multiple Panes. Is there a way to put six panes into one plugin? Preferably as a separate sections so user will see them in section list (left side of installer assistant). PS: Is there a way to automatically add a built plugin to the installer pkg? So far I'm still using Finder/unix cp to copy bundle after the build. If you mean from the PackageMaker command line tool: then you can write a script to do this. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Fwd: Multiple InstallerSections in one plugin
by Mateusz Łapsa-Malawski 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

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Re: creating custom installer
by Stéphane Sudre 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Jan 4, 2008, at 1:54 PM, raju p wrote: 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 You just create a metapackage. Which OS version are you using? _______________________________________________ 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 all, i am relatively new to the mac installer . i have specific problem * 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 This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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IFRequirementDicts "recommends" not working?
by Nathan Weston 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) I've tested this on a couple of 10.4 systems with the same results. This is the relevant portion of the Info.plist (generated by PackageMaker). <key>IFRequirementDicts</key> <array> <dict> <key>Level</key> <string>recommends</string> <key>MessageKey</key> <string>FxPlug too old</string> <key>SpecArgument</key> <string>/Library/Frameworks/FxPlug.framework </string> <key>SpecProperty</key> <string>CFBundleVersion</string> <key>SpecType</key> <string>bundle</string> <key>TestObject</key> <string>1.2.3</string> <key>TestOperator</key> <string>eq</string> <key>TitleKey</key> <string>title</string> </dict> </array> -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nathan Weston nathan(a)genarts.com GenArts, Inc. Tel: 617-492-2888 955 Mass. Ave Fax: 617-492-2852 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA www.genarts.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.… When I create a package requirement with the level set to "recommends" instead of "requires", it's still treated as a requirement. The installer won't let me choose any volumes and the "Continue" button is grayed out. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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creating custom installer
by raju p 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

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How is it possible to know on which OS X version you're going to install something?
by iceberg 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Basically, the issue is the following one: 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). Since Apple is pushing out security updates, oops updates (1), a Mac system said to be for instance 10.5.1 by the former methods is not really a genuine 10.5.1 version. So what would be the correct way of figuring out the real OS version? Or is it better to consider that we have a OS version with "Service Packs"? Since there's no APIs or tools to get the Service Pack version, what would be the recommended way? bom inspection, installdb queries? (1) oops updates are updates to fix a previous update. _______________________________________________ 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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Building metapackages from the command line with PackageMaker 3
by Marshall Elfstrand 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com /.../PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/PackageMaker -build \ -ms "/.../packages" \ -p "/.../result.mpkg" \ -r "/.../resources" \ -i "/.../Info.plist" \ -d "/.../Description.plist" \ -b /tmp ERROR: No packages to build. Thanks, Marshall _______________________________________________ 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'm trying to use the backwards-compatibility mode of the PackageMaker command-line tool in Leopard to build a metapackage, like so (paths shortened and lines split for readability): This worked fine under 10.4, but with PackageMaker 3 in Leopard, I'm getting: I've looked through the man page and the help text, and as far as I can tell, I'm doing what I should. I wouldn't mind updating my scripts to use the new syntax for PackageMaker, but I can't figure out how to build metapackages at all with the new syntax. If anyone could provide any pointers, I'd be most grateful. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Flat package format (10.5) and Installer plugins
by Stéphane Sudre 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Is the Flat package format supposed to support installer plugins? If the answer is yes, how are we supposed to add plugins? _______________________________________________ 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.… What looks like the obvious solution is not working at all (adding a Plugins folder in the flat archive at the same level as the Resources folder). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: PackageMaker 3.0 - Package References
by Stéphane Sudre 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:40 AM, Keith Duncan 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.… I'm packaging my product using PackageMaker 3.0 and the package contains references to three other.pkg components. I'm targeting 10.5 with all of my packages because I need to use the new flat package format. The dawn product package references; the Amber framework package; dawnAlarma, a launchd agent and its plist; and dawnAlarmd, a launchd daemon and its plist. The referenced packages build fine, no errors or warnings. When building the dawn package it throws a warning for each of the references packages: "No payload could be found. The package will not be build." Does anyone know what the problem is and how I can fix it? You will probably need to provide more information. I tried building a flat package referencing 2 flat packages and it worked fine. When you open your flat packages with the flat package editor, is there a payload visible? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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