February 2008 - Installer-dev

Re: Create Alias w Leopard PackageMaker
by Stéphane Sudre 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Feb 22, 2008, at 9:18 PM, Jim Hoyt wrote: Using Terminal I found that using this command: ln -s /Applications/Compass_4.0.13/Compass.app ~/Desktop/Start_Compass does exactly what I want. #!/bin/sh exit 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.… Thanks, but I only got more confused. I am not an XCode developer, just a lowly Filemaker Developer. Problem is, I don't know how to make that happen as a script called by the installer. Any thoughts? . It's not an alias but a symbolic link. Symbolic links are cheap aliases. . If you want to go this way, you would need to add a postflight script that would look like this: /bin/ln -s $3/Applications/Compass_4.0.13/Compass.app $USER/Desktop/ Start_Compass This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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PackageMaker problems
by Daniel Birns 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '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:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=N9nfrCCpmCXVpbuKqnoAR0UROc4icBHB/ucoYs+Gkw8=; b=VXoPYvAl/Vf2KGGm8yX8A787Ve4uhwmccyAhHWqCszwsC7rJMw6Elu3MYJDMeX8FYMpeFh0rJUx/MPa508H+mO0Yq8P2zz9qYq74XHnJ99stWE7bFiX9/BV7bIFQvj6417TnoRz5A3EsoLg/lTsid327GKxIX3ayFnxJVw0EMJ0= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=D9UheaueFgO0hBpEiZH1tqqsx/5+eJtFJaMzuvZrBaphrye0X5uwK93aH3fDOcpJE/r0lnt5iG+vIge00LqvwwBvynn9mkmV8w4d5tGSAF+WNNyE/MlXt4B1CBX0WTFvZS/yeUoMEqLfEHDBbP4v3iK1pTp1iQ4UhVDO/aDFccQ= Help! --Daniel On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Bill Coderre 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 was using Iceberg to create 2 separate Packages. Now I'm using PackageMaker to create a distribution that includes these 2 packages. All of this must work on the command line for our builds. I use Iceberg's freeze command and that works fine. Then i try using the command-line for PackageMaker, and it doesn't work, in the following way: If I don't specify my pmproj file, then it works, except that it calls the project "My great product". No exactly what I wanted. If I use -proj and specify my project file, it gives the following error: + /Developer/Tools/PackageMaker -build -mi /Users/daniel -p /Users/ daniel/macBuild/DartBoard.mpkg -proj DartBoard.pmproj 2008-02-22 15:05:09.417 PackageMaker[10358] *** Uncaught exception: <NSInvalidArgumentException> *** -[NSPlaceholderMutableString initWithString:]: nil argument newDoPackage.sh: line 16: 10358 Trace/BPT trap If I leave out the -proj it gives me the version with "My Great Product", which actually does the right thing. [[...] You can make a "hybrid" package which contains stuff in the Info.plist AND a distribution file. 10.0 - 10.3 ignores the distribution file, 10.4 and later uses the distribution and ignores (most of) the fields in the Info.plist. Not sure if Iceberg does that. According to the documentation I read on the developer's website (http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/documentation/Iceberg/ English.lproj/documentation/IcebergvsPM.html), it does not. _______________________________________________ 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/danielbirns% 40gmail.com This email sent to danielbirns(a)gmail.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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PackageMaker problems
by Daniel Birns 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '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=N9nfrCCpmCXVpbuKqnoAR0UROc4icBHB/ucoYs+Gkw8=; b=roS7Gn6QPnqc1Ud1tNfoF8SuDTH3+WnGSotAMnfRYPY+nEdoZSAUNZS99xEE/OW/edjLlgJ/QHjCn6BwlbFp3Nj0Tx28PBDEaWJjJSTPFY0nQHsVGwmRfRWRAnjPsdwxAVhO+TAznlOBC2jsRfGx/4noH1OQZ56kmgQuY7lAZyw= 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=gZaCtVlOmFCbyADHMpm+JNUD9G8/v+TrloNYfcVH/3QeN0LZF4XGWQjbd/UwxddST9S3sMXKHu+7u1UibE8mc8DJkXLOeG/PjiF/c61b5iRPwsLgBD5uVEDP3MI80L/TcBKXTcbkaGWU/VBwQs7PRNNIJqTTZG4BdQ4kHgNGXPo= Help! --Daniel On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Bill Coderre 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 was using Iceberg to create 2 separate Packages. Now I'm using PackageMaker to create a distribution that includes these 2 packages. All of this must work on the command line for our builds. I use Iceberg's freeze command and that works fine. Then i try using the command-line for PackageMaker, and it doesn't work, in the following way: If I don't specify my pmproj file, then it works, except that it calls the project "My great product". No exactly what I wanted. If I use -proj and specify my project file, it gives the following error: + /Developer/Tools/PackageMaker -build -mi /Users/daniel -p /Users/ daniel/macBuild/DartBoard.mpkg -proj DartBoard.pmproj 2008-02-22 15:05:09.417 PackageMaker[10358] *** Uncaught exception: <NSInvalidArgumentException> *** -[NSPlaceholderMutableString initWithString:]: nil argument newDoPackage.sh: line 16: 10358 Trace/BPT trap If I leave out the -proj it gives me the version with "My Great Product", which actually does the right thing. [[...] You can make a "hybrid" package which contains stuff in the Info.plist AND a distribution file. 10.0 - 10.3 ignores the distribution file, 10.4 and later uses the distribution and ignores (most of) the fields in the Info.plist. Not sure if Iceberg does that. According to the documentation I read on the developer's website (http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/documentation/Iceberg/ English.lproj/documentation/IcebergvsPM.html), it does not. _______________________________________________ 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/danielbirns% 40gmail.com This email sent to danielbirns(a)gmail.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Installation "diverting" under development user
by Nir Soffer 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

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Re: perms problem
by Daniel Birns 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '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=f9sBJ+EhCBPvbNEWwqyKBY8zX0mgpyhKhrhc3Wk4IUs=; b=VGKhw6VEhIrHQxIIiE+pKmrUYriPK6hBHlkoPHMrbTmf3rvmXuMq0ft5qYhjecnj+taLztPhcDDKjLRHLK0i/vscnzWSyEVhgNIo/Ul+PrpJkOwXI6x+KYltDvosH8dNW7ncYf8j871IvGlcKGIw+Gh7ox9uHE1d0DIZqcCKgSI= 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=arvg1YZDH3SoPefYrveshg6l6AYP+UwdvIWvpv2zoFieSbyIreplXN+DxTz4TsSdFn5tGvMVq+8f//H+Zi3XmvxspsRJoZtNFAQcRtbfNpZ6ceiCpE3tFHuseWvuVcN/TUgaF064LyaIQsHCJcKXkEkF035d3/ELhzsWkzBKVXE= At one point I got this error: --Daniel On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Bill Coderre 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.… Right -- I'm converting the .mpkg portion over to PackageMaker. That seems to work, though I'm having some trouble getting the command- line to work correctly. PackageMaker -build -p ~/macBuild/DartBoard.mpkg -proj DartBoard.pmproj 2008-02-22 10:57:53.395 PackageMaker[2668] *** Uncaught exception: <NSInvalidArgumentException> *** -[NSPlaceholderMutableString initWithString:]: nil argument Trace/BPT trap I changed to -mi and that doesn't get the error, but it doesn't seem to be doing that right thing either. [[...] You can make a "hybrid" package which contains stuff in the Info.plist AND a distribution file. 10.0 - 10.3 ignores the distribution file, 10.4 and later uses the distribution and ignores (most of) the fields in the Info.plist. Not sure if Iceberg does that. According to the documentation I read on the developer's website (http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/documentation/Iceberg/ English.lproj/documentation/IcebergvsPM.html), it does not. _______________________________________________ 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/danielbirns% 40gmail.com This email sent to danielbirns(a)gmail.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Create Alias w Leopard PackageMaker
by Stéphane Sudre 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Feb 22, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Jim Hoyt wrote: I could find no documentation on how this is supposed to work. Looked in PackageMaker_UserGuide_10.5.pdf. I tried several variations and got no aliases. I used this syntax: set dst to POSIX File "Whatever" as alias Hope it can help. -- Stephane _______________________________________________ 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.… PackageMaker 3.01 (Leopard) has an Actions function that is supposed to let you create an alias as a Postinstall Action. Point to Component (then selected the .app), Alias Path: /Desktop (also tried /Desktop/) Since the package I am installing has about a dozed file in the program folder, I don't want to force the user to find the right one and put in on the Desktop or Dock. I would like to be able to put an Alias in the Dock and on the Desktop. I know it doesn't suit some people's tastes to plunk things on the users workspace, but that is my choice, and knowing my users, they will like my choice. Any help deeply appreciated, if you know of some more detailed documentation, that would be great, also. As far as I can tell, PackageMaker 3.0.1 creates (or tries to create) an alias using an applescript script. Your path should probably be $HOME/Desktop (if I am to believe the tests I've just made). Unfortunately this would not be enough as the script is failing on the following call: Just in case you don't want to spend your time trying to figure out how to make this Applescript work, one solution could be to use the command line tool available at this URL: http://s.sudre.free.fr/ Software/HelperTools/bristow.zip (this is a Xcode project) usage: bristow [-a][-u] <file or directory> alias -a -- Install an alias in all users home folder. alias will be read as a relative path. -u -- Install an alias in the current logged in user home folder. alias will be read as a relative path. Regarding Docking a file or application, this can be achieved with a plist editor (according to some persons). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Installer Package database questions
by Jose R.C. Cruz 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

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Adding Scripts to distribution packages
by Paul FitzGerald 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Does anyone know how to add scripts to an mpkg from the command line? Is there a way to specify within a pmdoc to add specific files? Thanks, Paul _______________________________________________ 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 having a problem trying to figure out how to add a shell script to my distribution package (10.4+). Since I have an automated build system the solution must be from the command line (no hand editing, that would be to easy). I currently use the following shell command to build my mpkg (formatted for readability)... /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker --title ProductName --root-volume-only --no-recommend --target 10.4 --domain system --doc resources/install_resources/ProductName.pmdoc --scripts resources/install_resources/Scripts/ --out "ProductName Installer.mpkg" -v In my pmdoc file I have an Open File action that will/should call my shell script. Looking in the created package I see a Postflight sub-package and in it I see a postflight script that has a call to open my script. So, that all looks cool. But the issue it that my script is not being copied into the mpkg. My script is located in the folder specified by the --scripts attribute of the command line. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: perms problem
by Stéphane Sudre 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Bill Coderre 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.… [[...] You can make a "hybrid" package which contains stuff in the Info.plist AND a distribution file. 10.0 - 10.3 ignores the distribution file, 10.4 and later uses the distribution and ignores (most of) the fields in the Info.plist. Not sure if Iceberg does that. According to the documentation I read on the developer's website (http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/documentation/Iceberg/English.lproj/ documentation/IcebergvsPM.html), it does not. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Create Alias w Leopard PackageMaker
by Jim Hoyt 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Sending this again, as it seemed to disappear from the list... I could find no documentation on how this is supposed to work. Looked in PackageMaker_UserGuide_10.5.pdf. I tried several variations and got no aliases. I used this syntax: I would like to be able to put an Alias in the Dock and on the Desktop. Thanks, Jim Hoyt, Filemaker Developer, Great Cacapon, West Virginia. _______________________________________________ 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.… PackageMaker 3.01 (Leopard) has an Actions function that is supposed to let you create an alias as a Postinstall Action. Point to Component (then selected the .app), Alias Path: /Desktop (also tried /Desktop/) Since the package I am installing has about a dozed file in the program folder, I don't want to force the user to find the right one and put in on the Desktop or Dock. I know it doesn't suit some people's tastes to plunk things on the users workspace, but that is my choice, and knowing my users, they will like my choice. Any help deeply appreciated, if you know of some more detailed documentation, that would be great, also. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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