October 2008 - Installer-dev

pkmkdoc spec available?
by Bill Janssen 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com I see that the pmdoc file contains an XML file which begins with <pkmkdoc spec="1.12"> Any chance that spec is available? Bill _______________________________________________ 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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Netboot/netinstall across subnets update
by Rich_Barron＠vfc.com 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

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Netboot/netinstall across subnets?
by Rich_Barron＠vfc.com 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

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Re: Package Installs and no files show up.
by Scott Amory 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Scott On Oct 3, 2008, at 11:35 AM, J. Todd Slack wrote: Hi All, Leopard 10.5.5, XCode 3.1 Thoughts? I am stumped. -Jason _______________________________________________ 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.… Do you have relocation turned on in Package Maker? Likely you do and it is being relocated to wherever the app already exists on your system. You can see where it is going by looking for a line starting with "Diverted" in /var/log/install.log. My installer says it installed the files, but nothing is written to / Applications. I dont have any 'requirements' and I have the .app going to / Applications, but never shows up. _______________________________________________ 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/samory %40apple.com This email sent to samory(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Package Installs and no files show up.
by Jason Proctor 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com this happened to me, which precipitated the relocation thread. hth j Hi All, Leopard 10.5.5, XCode 3.1 Thoughts? I am stumped. -Jason _______________________________________________ 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/jason%40redfish.net _______________________________________________ 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.… fire up /Applications/Utilities/Console.app. click "All Messages", top left. you might see some log messages from the installer, "diverting" your package somewhere else on your disk. hopefully it didn't overwrite another version of the same application that was hanging around. either way, if this is the problem, you will probably want to review the relocation thread and turn off relocation in PackageMaker. My installer says it installed the files, but nothing is written to /Applications. I dont have any 'requirements' and I have the .app going to /Applications, but never shows up. This email sent to jason(a)redfish.net This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Package Installs and no files show up.
by J. Todd Slack 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi All, Leopard 10.5.5, XCode 3.1 Thoughts? I am stumped. -Jason _______________________________________________ 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.… My installer says it installed the files, but nothing is written to / Applications. I dont have any 'requirements' and I have the .app going to / Applications, but never shows up. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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(no subject)
by Bill Janssen 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com So, what am I doing wrong here? This is Xcode 3 on a PPC machine. % ls -l /tmp/q total 0 drwxrwxr-x 3 wjanssen wheel 102 Oct 2 10:45 it1-1.0.pkg drwxrwxr-x 3 wjanssen wheel 102 Oct 2 10:45 it2-1.0.pkg % /Developer/usr/bin/packagemaker -build -mi /tmp/q -p /tmp/iTest-1.0.mpkg -i package.plist -r ./package-resources -v Building in backwards compatible mode ERROR: No packages to build. % Bill _______________________________________________ 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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Delete Files Before Install
by J. Todd Slack 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi, Leopard 10.5.5, XCode 3.1 -Jason _______________________________________________ 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.… Can I have PackageMaker delete files before installing the new ones? Just to be sure. I have one client saying he is installing the latest version, but he is not seeing any of the changes. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Changing the default destination path at runtime
by Glover,David 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcklRBAhViWe7NFBR1mJtJwAMa2L8g== Thread-topic: Changing the default destination path at runtime _______________________________________________ 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: Turning off relocation (a hack solution to a PackageMaker bug)
by Nigel Kersten 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=explanatorygap.net; h=Received:Cc:Message-Id:From:To:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Mime-Version:Subject:Date:References:X-Mailer:X-Identified-User; b=LWmGHXIS/UMQuxkfUblwopEanIsUspwCD9McMvrfcK/RFUB6yZ26AAow8G7LfcY8X0atPmbRI27aASLJ5UIEcJP8Y2Nj+oq2OVGoRktiCWwflpPxNn3zU46Cad4ATOkR; On Oct 3, 2008, at 7:06 AM, John Gee 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.… defaults delete FOO.pkg/Contents/Info IFPkgPathMappings For anyone trying this out, I could not get "default" to access the file using a relative path, but it did work when I specified an absolute path. (Mac OS X 10.5.5) Yep. defaults requires absolute paths and the .plist extension to be stripped. PlistBuddy doesn't have these particular limitations , and in 10.5 is shipped in /usr/libexec/ This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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