February 2008 - Installer-dev

Installer Package database questions
by Glover,David 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

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Re: using launchctl in postflight scripts
by Keith Duncan 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Keith #!/bin/sh _______________________________________________ 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 need to start both a daemon and agent process using launchctl, but my postinstall/postupgrade scripts run as root. You can use the environment variables set for the script. My agent preinstall script is given below for example. if [ -f /Library/LaunchAgents/dawnAlarma.plist ]; then su $USER -c 'launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/ com.buoy.dawnAlarma.plist' fi This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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using launchctl in postflight scripts
by Shaun Wexler 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

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Re: PackageMaker 3.0.1 problems
by Paul FitzGerald 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Feb 15, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Paul FitzGerald wrote: On Feb 15, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: On Feb 15, 2008, at 12:29 AM, Paul FitzGerald wrote: I am using the PackageMakers Users Guide as my reference. -- Stephane 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.… So, I started with a new startup company and I'm the only Mac Engineer. That means I now have to build my own installers. Log time Mac developer, new to PackageMaker. What I want to do is to use the PackageMaker GUI to setup a pmdoc file that I can call from a shell script to package up our product. I'm having several issues. The biggest one is consistency. It seems that every installer I build (currently building from the GUI) behaves differently. So far I can't nail down specifics. But I'd like to get a feel for the stability of this version of PackageMaker before I go nuts. Two issues that I'm having problems with are... 1) Setting Owner/Group/Mode. I want to set Owner to root and Group to Admin and one directory in the app need write access for everyone. The permissions in the app are already set as I need them but the Owner/Group is not. It seems that sometimes the installer does what I want and sometimes it does not. 2) I have a Postinstall Action that is suppose to launch the application when the installer is done. (I'd also like the installer to quit post install as well) I've seen it work a couple of times but usually nothing happens. Thanks for any help and pointer in the right direction, Which package format do you use (or to be PackageMaker compliant, which OS do you target when you create your project)? A postinstall action does not mean the same thing depending on the package format... I had to stop and think about what you were asking. Since I was using the GUI "target" wasn't clicking. I'm targeting 10.4 for the app. I also have given up on the GUI and am trying to put it together from the command line. Slowly building it up while re- reading "Software Delivery Guide" I'm making progress ever so slowly. I am now building a component package from the command line using the following (formatted for readability)... /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker -t Name -b -m --target 10.4 -h system -r build/Release/temp -f resources/install_resources/Info.plist -e resources/install_resources/Resources -s resources/install_resources/Scripts -o "Name.pkg" This is working out OK but I want to embed this into a Distribution Package. I've hand-rolled one that works for me but there are some things in the distribution.dist file that may not be exactly correct (like installKBytes="5000"). I started by editing a distribution.dist file from a previous failed attempt at using the GUI. So, my question... Is there a way to build a distribution package from the command line that incorporates an existing flat package? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: can't find .info file
by Stéphane Sudre 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Feb 18, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: On Feb 18, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: Installer 2.1.9 on 10.4.11. What is this error, and how can I correct it? Here's the invocation line: On Feb 18, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: When I try to open my installer package, Installer refuses, and the console log contains the entry: 2008-02-18 15:43:38.198 Installer[2540] IFPkg::_parseOldStyleForLanguage - can't find .info file (ApplicationName) (where ApplicationName is the name of the application installed, and the name of the package) UPDATE: Trying again later, I found I could open and run my package. I'm still worried that if the error can go away by itself, it can come back by itself. Could someone please advise me whether I should be worried? .info files are used in the "Mac OS X 10.0" package format. Huh. Well, the .info file is there now. Anyone have any thoughts on what would make it disappear for one build? (Or Installer.app miss it for a run or two?) PackageMaker -build -p ApplicationNameTest/ApplicationName.pkg -f ./ root -b /tmp -s -ds \ -r resources -i Info.plist -d Description.plist The plists were primed with Iceberg 1.2.3, and have been hand - edited (I thought conservatively) since . The Iceberg project did have the "Build Mac OS X 10.1 compatible packages" box checked; I don't need that, really, but I'd rather keep it than go into an extended test after changing it. Well, there is a flaw in the design of the 10.0 package format which could explain the problem. The name of the components inside the pckage bundle are named after the bundle itself. If your package was named Rad5372397.pkg, then you would get inside the Resources folder of the bundle a Rad5372397.info file. If you renamed the package, all hell would break loose and the package could usually not be installed. So one possibility is that the package was renamed at one point. But I don't see that happening on a recent OS version. _______________________________________________ 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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A Distribution Definition Reference addendum (work in progress)
by Stéphane Sudre 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Some tags and attributes are not listed in the official documentation: <installer-gui-script>: Equivalent to <installer-script> <choice>: <options>: <platforms>: Content This element can contain the following element: client <client>: _______________________________________________ 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.… +----------------------+----------- +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ | Attribute name | Type | Description / Educated Guess | Occurrence | +----------------------+----------- +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ | secondaryDescription | String | Optional. ? | FrontRowUpdate 2.1.2 | +----------------------+----------- +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ | suDisabledGroupID | String | Optional. ? | FrontRowUpdate 2.1.2 | +----------------------+----------- +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ +----------------------+----------- +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ | Attribute name | Type | Description / Educated Guess | Occurrence | +----------------------+----------- +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ | hostArchitectures | String | Optional. Architecture supported by the | Mac OS X DVD | | | | distributionPossible values: i386, ppc *| | +----------------------+----------- +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ | eraseOptionAvailable | Boolean | Optional. ? | Mac OS X DVD | +----------------------+----------- +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ +----------------------+----------- +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ | Attribute name | Type | Description / Educated Guess | Occurrence | +----------------------+----------- +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ | arch | String | ? | FrontRowUpdate 2.1.2 | | | | Possible values: i386, ppc | | +----------------------+----------- +-----------------------------------------+----------------------+ (*) This one seems to be potentially useful if you don't want a distribution to be installable on a platform: <options hostArchitectures='i386'/> prevented a distribution from being installable on my PowerMacG5 (10.4.11 and 10.5.1) This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: can't find .info file
by Fritz Anderson 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Feb 18, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: Installer 2.1.9 on 10.4.11. What is this error, and how can I correct it? Here's the invocation line: — F _______________________________________________ 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.… On Feb 18, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: When I try to open my installer package, Installer refuses, and the console log contains the entry: 2008-02-18 15:43:38.198 Installer[2540] IFPkg::_parseOldStyleForLanguage - can't find .info file (ApplicationName) (where ApplicationName is the name of the application installed, and the name of the package) UPDATE: Trying again later, I found I could open and run my package. I'm still worried that if the error can go away by itself, it can come back by itself. Could someone please advise me whether I should be worried? .info files are used in the "Mac OS X 10.0" package format. Huh. Well, the .info file is there now. Anyone have any thoughts on what would make it disappear for one build? (Or Installer.app miss it for a run or two?) PackageMaker -build -p ApplicationNameTest/ApplicationName.pkg -f ./ root -b /tmp -s -ds \ -r resources -i Info.plist -d Description.plist The plists were primed with Iceberg 1.2.3, and have been hand -edited (I thought conservatively) since . The Iceberg project did have the "Build Mac OS X 10.1 compatible packages" box checked; I don't need that, really, but I'd rather keep it than go into an extended test after changing it. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: can't find .info file
by Stéphane Sudre 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Feb 18, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: Installer 2.1.9 on 10.4.11. What is this error, and how can I correct it? .info files are used in the "Mac OS X 10.0" package format. _______________________________________________ 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 try to open my installer package, Installer refuses, and the console log contains the entry: 2008-02-18 15:43:38.198 Installer[2540] IFPkg::_parseOldStyleForLanguage - can't find .info file (ApplicationName) (where ApplicationName is the name of the application installed, and the name of the package) UPDATE: Trying again later, I found I could open and run my package. I'm still worried that if the error can go away by itself, it can come back by itself. Could someone please advise me whether I should be worried? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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can't find .info file
by Fritz Anderson 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Installer 2.1.9 on 10.4.11. What is this error, and how can I correct it? — F _______________________________________________ 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 try to open my installer package, Installer refuses, and the console log contains the entry: 2008-02-18 15:43:38.198 Installer[2540] IFPkg::_parseOldStyleForLanguage - can't find .info file (ApplicationName) (where ApplicationName is the name of the application installed, and the name of the package) UPDATE: Trying again later, I found I could open and run my package. I'm still worried that if the error can go away by itself, it can come back by itself. Could someone please advise me whether I should be worried? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Javascript for Installer - SubEthaEdit mode
by Stéphane Sudre 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/files/InstallerJavascript.mode.zip Hope it can be helpful to someone. -- 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.… Maybe there's one already available on the web but I have not been able to find it. Anyway, you can find a SubEthaEdit mode for the Javascript extensions defined for Installer.app at the following URL: This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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