October 2008 - Installer-dev

Detecting locale with preinstall script
by Glover,David 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

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[JavaScript] Another requirement bug
by Iceberg-Dev 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:content-type:to:from:subject :date:x-mailer; bh=1zlFi3/QzyzlAhQEPtOksmUlM0NZPJ6CdgibTPzTO3k=; b=nGO+1QTuOy8jHCUIQ8IvYGulkqzk1GZM3lKvQx5cjz3WHiRlQRFUPNkaL08Z27K698 vqaXKX8iH/UXNMSfPAfS8jE3Do6ZWMTrOqMvP9R3w+T2N8H+Mm5eIEx1+r44cAZxQXlL cw20djJzWkXaZBqepWNrby6y0dGF98h1m/91Q= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:content-type:to :from:subject:date:x-mailer; b=H7wmzaAUYlxeG26m8oytZSZLeWkywbqAdxGnRqPWLw4aSaG9xmImNMI1ofuKtQQdl5 ck6tt99El/3k7JEKn3DkKAs21oAU7gY7BLeKz+slYru6MSUWn+s84IXMAjLlZ19kYI7m YvQZhaV0a6tAugIVurH4Tdl4zLiE0gH7smO/4= According to the Javascript documentation: Result ------ o Overview o Properties type String with the type of the result. Its values can be: ---------- Bug ID# 6315859 _______________________________________________ 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.… The Result object provides methods to obtain information about the result of an Installation Check or Volume Check script. This object is accessed using the my.result property. 'Warn': The user is notified that a requirement is not met but can continue the install. 'Fatal': For Installation Check scripts, the user cannot continue the install. For Volume Check scripts, the user cannot install on the affected volume. It just happens that in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, if the volumeCheck script returns false with my.result.type set to 'Warn', no warning is displayed at all when you select a volume. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: how to change folder attributes from postinstall (missing SetFile?)
by Steffan A. Cline 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Ack1PuJv7+Of7uZlgkCyx6rjQq4GAg== Thread-topic: how to change folder attributes from postinstall (missing SetFile?) User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.13.0.080930 on 10/23/08 10:42 AM, Mario Emmenlauer at mario(a)emmenlauer.de wrote: > > Hi, > > Iceberg-Dev wrote: >> On Oct 23, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: >>> I have an installer that works very well as long as I have 'Include >>> Root in Package' enabled. When I disable it, the Icons for the app- >>> lication bundle don't show up until the user reboots. >>> >>> The reason seems that PackageMaker creates the root folder (instead of >>> unpacking it), and therefore the folder lacks attributes?! >>> >>> >>> Using 'SetFile -a C /Applications/Folder.app' from a postinstall-script, >>> I can make the Icons appear. However, SetFile is not available on the >>> users machines. >>> >>> Whats the right tool to use on a users machine to set folder attributes? >> >> It's pretty easy to write one, you only need to play with the >> FSCatalogInfo data. > > > That is really simple to write, thanks for the hint! > > However, it seems awkward to write, distribute and maintain an extra > cmdline-tool, only to set the icon-attribute once after installation. > (Especially given that (a) the attribute would be most conveniently set > by PackageMaker, and (b) is not needed to be manually set, if I uncheck > a PackageMaker flag). > > > There should be a cmdline tool (or other cmdline way) in a base OS X > installation that lets users change attributes, isn't there? That would > be very awkward. > > Cheers, > > Mario > Would it be a violation of any EULA to have the binary for SetFile in the same directory with the postflight script of the installer and simply call ./SetFile ... ? I've run into this very thing recently where I have to place a symlink and in the root of the drive but hide it from the finder. I am trying to install GhostScript into a folder that has a space in the name but it won't work. It will build fine but the install script chokes. So, I have the symlink point to the folder with the space in the name in order to get it to install. In describing my scenario, I just had an idea that is OT but I wonder if anyone would know without testing. .. Since gs builds with a path specified with a space in it, what if I create the symlink to the path and use DESTDIR to the folder? ./configure --prefix="/Applications/Lasso\ Professional\ 8/ExecuChoice_Tags/Tools" make ln -s /Applications/Lasso\ Professional\ 8/ExecuChoice_Tags/Tools ec_tools make install DESTDIR=/ec_tools Any ideas? Thanks Steffan --------------------------------------------------------------- T E L 6 0 2 . 7 9 3 . 0 0 1 4 | F A X 6 0 2 . 9 7 1 . 1 6 9 4 Steffan A. Cline Steffan(a)ExecuChoice.net Phoenix, Az http://www.ExecuChoice.net USA AIM : SteffanC ICQ : 57234309 YAHOO : Steffan_Cline MSN : steffan(a)hldns.com GOOGLE: Steffan.Cline Lasso Partner Alliance Member --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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: easy uninstaller solution
by Adam Fisk 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

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Re: how to change folder attributes from postinstall (missing SetFile?)
by Mario Emmenlauer 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) Hi, I have an installer that works very well as long as I have 'Include Root in Package' enabled. When I disable it, the Icons for the app- lication bundle don't show up until the user reboots. The reason seems that PackageMaker creates the root folder (instead of unpacking it), and therefore the folder lacks attributes?! Using 'SetFile -a C /Applications/Folder.app' from a postinstall-script, I can make the Icons appear. However, SetFile is not available on the users machines. That is really simple to write, thanks for the hint! However, it seems awkward to write, distribute and maintain an extra cmdline-tool, only to set the icon-attribute once after installation. (Especially given that (a) the attribute would be most conveniently set by PackageMaker, and (b) is not needed to be manually set, if I uncheck a PackageMaker flag). There should be a cmdline tool (or other cmdline way) in a base OS X installation that lets users change attributes, isn't there? That would be very awkward. Cheers, Mario _______________________________________________ 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.… Iceberg-Dev wrote: On Oct 23, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: Whats the right tool to use on a users machine to set folder attributes? It's pretty easy to write one, you only need to play with the FSCatalogInfo data. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: easy uninstaller solution
by Bill Janssen 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Iceberg-Dev <dev.iceberg(a)gmail.com> wrote: > - Since the script will be executed with administration privileges, > there's always the issue that someone can change the script to do bad > things. Yes, I don't like setuid scripts in the first place. Apple has an entire Authorization framework mapped out, which is probably the right thing to use, but I just added a sudo function in my Python script: def sudo (command, password): p = subprocess.Popen("sudo -S " + command, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True) try: p.stdin.write(password + "\n") p.stdin.close() finally: p.wait() return p.returncode 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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Re: how to change folder attributes from postinstall (missing SetFile?)
by Iceberg-Dev 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

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Re: easy uninstaller solution
by Iceberg-Dev 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding :from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=wYWAB93IcPyionbKjU+Sr4TiYU528SYyFN0nmfwX7lE=; b=rNQlNu6sqGfL2zSCPqQHOP2NDs6ZCtnUZWzusls3A+0SptQGta/DoG5gou7LF5Em65 x8unttm3yu/AnLMoIC6QzBQUKq36+wVn9rdypwHtE5aVOkgGmGXKP2ELOkuOdhq38xGa lv8pt3FcLtcHZyYr/Ek9kGaofVQr0hR8vNPVA= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=Ra2oEE2rXx14XBgTDknirqeMLUVhS0mVWlLd+mYMeI5ggdhfGYfaLBTDOqFJ0lqwl/ kxZ83+PS+Uy7O+RIJdtEEmJoff+jGIph/n7MVyPy3XrKKsJDnuzaMLWZE1MiiJ2dz8NM HoLK6VSdjY0tCOe9fhQ7tBmT5KD0i1VyPn/vU= On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Adam Fisk wrote: Hi Everyone- I just posted a really great (I think) uninstaller solution on my blog I think people here may find useful. Basically, you just perform your entire uninstall in a bash script that's called from an AppleScript application bundle (so the user can double click it). Once you've got the application bundle set up, you just need to update and maintain the bash script and never worry about building the bundle or editing the AppleScript (a bit of a pain) again since the AppleScript will always just call whatever's in your bash file. The post is here: Any feedback in the comments is most welcome. There may very well be a better way of doing this I'm unaware of. That's a nice tutorial. My $0.2 _______________________________________________ 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.… http://adamfisk.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/osx-uninstallers-the-easy- way/ There might be 2 things to take into account here that are related to security: - it's better to use absolute path for tools to avoid calling an alias. For instance, use /bin/rm instead of just rm - Since the script will be executed with administration privileges, there's always the issue that someone can change the script to do bad things. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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how to change folder attributes from postinstall (missing SetFile?)
by Mario Emmenlauer 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) Hi, I have an installer that works very well as long as I have 'Include Root in Package' enabled. When I disable it, the Icons for the app- lication bundle don't show up until the user reboots. The reason seems that PackageMaker creates the root folder (instead of unpacking it), and therefore the folder lacks attributes?! Using 'SetFile -a C /Applications/Folder.app' from a postinstall-script, I can make the Icons appear. However, SetFile is not available on the users machines. Whats the right tool to use on a users machine to set folder attributes? What would be portable (and work on Tiger, Leopard, SnowLeopard)? Or am I doing something completely wrong here? Cheers, Mario BTW: I found similar discussions on this list, but all without satis- factory results. _______________________________________________ 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: easy uninstaller solution
by Adam Fisk 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=diFpCB7JzO+fhjM3H1q4aoWph/C1meSX8Q+4nrwr3gw=; b=YOxhfaXuyOyZiclyvKZOnpPNTtJUv0RHjfF1P53FAkWb4Ui4+7hHcTVFs+++iXK2B3 XmIl9PVtPNLpsbj9MbGS1Sdv4Xzr1wyYrQfMkCYpC/4P2VazKbj9SaS0zvonLRrjL/rq KoPtWkBmQS8FNLd8a8SUdTIs+knWO7SadvbyU= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=YTBtfnmfly8aM9WLqzjzQjnHiBiOay9Yx4YRVtnNtspWGfmgii+TVXJBCoYcL1yq1M HMIkawDBrBXOyBvfNEgpQBtsbeg5GPNeYlmD696NIHzcmMDOTiDl9XbJkbVZ8szg4pUJ L3aS55j19PwArcXvjK1PkvamUHFKhC6yZHFuA= I could certainly see that. The AppleScript approach I'm using just has a couple AppleScript dialogs. It's really designed for people (like me) who have never quite taken the Cocoa or even AppleScript plunge (but know a little sh) and just want to get an uninstaller working. -Adam On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Adam Fisk <a(a)littleshoot.org> wrote: > I could certainly see that. The AppleScript approach I'm using just > has a couple AppleScript dialogs. It's really designed for people > (like me) who have never quite taken the Cocoa or even AppleScript > plunge (but know a little sh) and just want to get an uninstaller > working. > > -Adam > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Bill Janssen <janssen(a)parc.com> wrote: >> Adam Fisk <a(a)lastbamboo.org> wrote: >> >>> Once you've got the application bundle set up, you just need to >>> update and maintain the bash script and never worry about building the >>> bundle or editing the AppleScript (a bit of a pain) again since the >>> AppleScript will always just call whatever's in your bash file. >> >> I find writing a little Cocoa-Python script works pretty well, too, if >> you need a GUI to your uninstaller. >> >> Bill >> > -- http://www.littleshoot.org P2P Meets Web 2.0 _______________________________________________ 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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