October 2008 - Installer-dev

Re: Automatically advancing through a plug-in pane
by Fred Priese 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

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Re: Automatically advancing through a plug-in pane
by Michael Wu 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

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Automatically advancing through a plug-in pane
by Fred Priese 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Ack7lViittei6WLhikOgu9fbTTbv5g== Thread-topic: Automatically advancing through a plug-in pane I have a plug-in for my installer which will display 1 or more notices for the user. I want to bypass this plug-in when there are no notices to display. My research is failing to find anything. Thanks for any guidance. I'll keep looking and post back if I find anything. Fred -- The information contained in this e-mail, including any files attached to it, is intended only for the personal use of the designated recipient and may contain PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL information and is exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this e-mail and attachments is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, disclosure, distribution, printing, copying or the taking of any action in reliance on this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by responding to this email or by calling our office at (314) 590-0900. _______________________________________________ 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: Adobe Creative Suite 3 - how are you guys pkg'ing for deployment?
by Morten Reippuert Knudsen 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

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Re: Quitting the Installer
by development2 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Greg Neagle wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 6:34 AM, development2 wrote: Well this is not for enterprise anyway. For single users anyway. installer -pkg /apth/to/package.pkg -target / is a pain in the *** to mass deploy. -Greg _______________________________________________ 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.… Well it won't work right if they run it from the Command Line. This is an installer for basically a Windows Software Company and they want it as much like there Windows installer as possible. I brought thus up to them and they siad well it just won't work if they run it front he Command line. Then expect enterprise customers to hate your installer and possibly your product. Any installer that can't be silently installed via the command line like this: Correct behavior for both GUI and command line is to display an error and abort the install, not to force quit the installer. Yeah that is what I want to do. Tell them what is wrong and basically abort the install. Thanks, This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Quitting the Installer
by Greg Neagle 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Oct 28, 2008, at 6:34 AM, development2 wrote: installer -pkg /apth/to/package.pkg -target / is a pain in the *** to mass deploy. -Greg _______________________________________________ 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.… Well it won't work right if they run it from the Command Line. This is an installer for basically a Windows Software Company and they want it as much like there Windows installer as possible. I brought thus up to them and they siad well it just won't work if they run it front he Command line. Then expect enterprise customers to hate your installer and possibly your product. Any installer that can't be silently installed via the command line like this: Correct behavior for both GUI and command line is to display an error and abort the install, not to force quit the installer. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Quitting the Installer
by Bill Coderre 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

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Re: Quitting the Installer
by development2 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thanks, On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:03 AM, David Watson wrote: Yeah I could dot that. Thanks, On Oct 28, 2008, at 8:20 AM, development2 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.… Keep in mind that users may not use the GUI installer at all, or they may modify your package to remove your plugin. Because of this, you'll need to support doing whatever kinds of checks/setup are necessary on first run of your app, as well. Well it won't work right if they run it from the Command Line. This is an installer for basically a Windows Software Company and they want it as much like there Windows installer as possible. I brought thus up to them and they siad well it just won't work if they run it front he Command line. If you haven't used the command-line installer, you can invoke it like this: sudo installer -target / -pkg mypackage.pkg I suppose it's possible that you could have your installer plugin create a specific magic file and have your preflight script check for it, but that seems a little hacky. Also, why do you need to quit the installer at all? Your plugin should be able to prevent the user from clicking "next". That way you give them the option of rectifying the problem, instead of just forcibly exiting. Well we have to quit the installer because that is what the Windows version does in the case that the new hardware can not be found. I wanted to tell the user to to rectify the problem, and then we would try again to find the device again, but they don't want me to do that. They just want the installer to bail. Not worth the fight in this case. I need the job. :) But I suppose if you really, really, wanted to, you could just call the exit() C function, or system("killall Installer.app"). Is there anyway to make a Package Maker Installer Quit. I have a need if the user does not have the right setup or there hardware that we are installing for is not connected I need to force quit the Installer. Now I have written several plugins that do some things we need to do during the install, but if there hardware is not connected I need to give them a message why, and quit the app. Thanks, This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Quitting the Installer
by David Watson 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Oct 28, 2008, at 8:20 AM, development2 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.… Keep in mind that users may not use the GUI installer at all, or they may modify your package to remove your plugin. Because of this, you'll need to support doing whatever kinds of checks/setup are necessary on first run of your app, as well. If you haven't used the command-line installer, you can invoke it like this: sudo installer -target / -pkg mypackage.pkg I suppose it's possible that you could have your installer plugin create a specific magic file and have your preflight script check for it, but that seems a little hacky. Also, why do you need to quit the installer at all? Your plugin should be able to prevent the user from clicking "next". That way you give them the option of rectifying the problem, instead of just forcibly exiting. But I suppose if you really, really, wanted to, you could just call the exit() C function, or system("killall Installer.app"). Is there anyway to make a Package Maker Installer Quit. I have a need if the user does not have the right setup or there hardware that we are installing for is not connected I need to force quit the Installer. Now I have written several plugins that do some things we need to do during the install, but if there hardware is not connected I need to give them a message why, and quit the app. Thanks, This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Quitting the Installer
by development2 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thanks, _______________________________________________ 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 there anyway to make a Package Maker Installer Quit. I have a need if the user does not have the right setup or there hardware that we are installing for is not connected I need to force quit the Installer. Now I have written several plugins that do some things we need to do during the install, but if there hardware is not connected I need to give them a message why, and quit the app. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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