May 2008 - Installer-dev - lists.apple.com

svn and missing empty directories
by Oliver Buerschaper 24 May '08

24 May '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi, myapp.pmdoc/ payload/ dir1/ dir2/ ... scripts/ So how can I prevent this? Best, Oliver _______________________________________________ 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 with PackageMaker 3.0.1 in conjunction with Subversion. All the source files needed to build the package are contained in a Subversion working directory which looks like this: Note that each directory contains an additional .svn/ directory with info for Subversion. Some of the directories under payload/ are empty but need to be placed onto the target nevertheless. However, when running PackageMaker on this Subversion working directory those empty directories don't end up in the package as I checked with Pacifist. When I don't run PackageMaker on the working directory but on an exported directory (no .svn/ subdirectories but otherwise identical) everything's fine. My suspicion is that the file filter rule /\.svn$ in PackageMaker is too aggressive and not only excludes the .svn/ subdirectory of an otherwsie empty directory but also the directory itself. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Display script status in PackageMaker 3 GUI
by Bryan S. Lee 24 May '08

24 May '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Aci9WJS5JKPkOJ3iN062BWesVM3oWw== Thread-topic: Display script status in PackageMaker 3 GUI User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.10.0.080409 Curious if there is a command (that could be added to a script) for sending status info to PackageMaker 3 to show something in the GUI status display? We're using a lot of postscripts and I would love to give the user some better status. I've done this with iHook and Radmind before, but am hoping/wishing there's a way with PackageMaker. So far, my searching is coming up dry. If I was guessing, I would bet against it, just because I notice that there are a ton of postscripts that run on the Microsoft Office 2008 updates with absolutely no feeback of what's happening. Hoping maybe they just haven't added it yet. :P -- Bryan _______________________________________________ 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: Can the OS X Installer help us decide which language a customer is using?
by Mike Fischer 23 May '08

23 May '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Am 23.05.2008 um 21:05 schrieb Jim Dodd <bcbuilderboy(a)yahoo.com>: HTH Mike -- Mike Fischer Softwareentwicklung, EDV-Beratung Schulung, Vertrieb Note: I read this list in digest mode! Send me a private copy for faster responses. _______________________________________________ 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 have been using PackageMaker for a few years and it has worked well for what we needed. Now, we have changed our application to be available in two languages (more will follow) and I need to be able to load the appropriate manual and help files based on the language the customer is using. The application itself is no problem because it is built with Resource Bundles and chooses the correct strings for dialogs and messages correctly. But we don't want to copy all the available manuals and help documents in each language to the customer's disk.We would just like to copy the French manual and French help if the user is running the Installer in French, for instance. There are a couple of situations where your thinking will cause problems: - What if the administrator installs the app and her user account is set to a different language than that of the actual user? - What if multiple users using your app on the same machine are using different localizations? - I often keep around a user account named "English" to be able to send bug reports, etc. to the authors including screenshots in their native language. If the app installer had only installed my native language (German) then I would not be able to do that. I'm familiar with PackageMaker allowing for ReadMe, License etc files in different languages to localize the Installer itself and the fact that InstallationCheck and VolumeCheck can have their strings in different languages that are chosen at runtime.. But is this information (which language is being used by the Installer) available for our preflight, postinstall and postupdate scripts? You could probably hack something like this by removing all localized files for localizations that don't match the current one in the postflight script. But this is going against the grain. It could also be dangerous because the localization falls back to the CFBundleDevelopmentRegion if the exact localization can't be found. So you'd also have to keep that around. Why not just tell the user in your ReadMe or other documentation that they can reduce the size of the app by using the Finder Information window and manually deleting any languages they don't need? They can only do that if they are authorized to modify the app of course (which is good). Or you could make the localizations other than your CFBundleDevelopmentRegion optional and package them in optional sub- packages of a meta package. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Empty Folders
by Wayne Linder 23 May '08

23 May '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Aci87i7/FD380PT+R2Cy8PSTZiQyzQAAauNQ Thread-topic: Empty Folders User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.3.3.061214 You can either do this with a postflight script or simply create a small invisible file in the folder. Wayne > From: Annette Brooks <annette.brooks(a)myob.com> > Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 10:00:55 -0600 > To: "installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com" <installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com> > Conversation: Empty Folders > Subject: Empty Folders > > Does anyone know how to install an empty folder? There is a folder we create > for our users so it is there when they need it, but at the time of install it > is an empty folder. I can only get this folder to install if I have create a > file to install in it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/linder%40iomega.com > > This email sent to linder(a)iomega.com _______________________________________________ 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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Can the OS X Installer help us decide which language a customer is using?
by Jim Dodd 23 May '08

23 May '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=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=cCDKbHwTwEiZT/ryDh9IWSZH3474KxENXj38SBoriQHzgqcNxPs1xvnqDxJfp6UDbcYQoSyjWm936mSjhV6nJfjMyCR3JyWSyYUk/KArGRUY3u66f8pjC6ytkaG1FUCnByOZZBlzN0NY2UbuX6/kreK95R73yk91bl/USjkfZGw=; I have been using PackageMaker for a few years and it has worked well for what we needed. Now, we have changed our application to be available in two languages (more will follow) and I need to be able to load the appropriate manual and help files based on the language the customer is using. The application itself is no problem because it is built with Resource Bundles and chooses the correct strings for dialogs and messages correctly. But we don't want to copy all the available manuals and help documents in each language to the customer's disk.We would just like to copy the French manual and French help if the user is running the Installer in French, for instance. I'm familiar with PackageMaker allowing for ReadMe, License etc files in different languages to localize the Installer itself and the fact that InstallationCheck and VolumeCheck can have their strings in different languages that are chosen at runtime.. But is this information (which language is being used by the Installer) available for our preflight, postinstall and postupdate scripts? Thank you, Jim Dodd Onset Computer Corporation. _______________________________________________ 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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Empty Folders
by Annette Brooks 23 May '08

23 May '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Aci87i7/FD380PT+R2Cy8PSTZiQyzQ== Thread-topic: Empty Folders Does anyone know how to install an empty folder? There is a folder we create for our users so it is there when they need it, but at the time of install it is an empty folder. I can only get this folder to install if I have create a file to install in it. _______________________________________________ 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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FileVault will move installer plugin into /tmp directory
by Julian Qian 23 May '08

23 May '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:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=iLiitYG0/2DYrH4Yas3Do2D6KGzvbK9ctGufXKWd99o=; b=wBAicuuRIfLjkgD5U7pX6SMc/4L0Y1DUY/PIgi4LI4qtHs+O9eSTAqaFO8lqCqwmvbEvSNm6FDH7A5XbQtrvuo84VUC/ckFXG13fyTcmRi080dLZNybhY/qJXBecbNdZBS+PfFMrEs1GeMhTAhXwQT5NiysO8QOsFZ6+WQGoWrs= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=gP5fm31go38sS+qPpN8wTYPhCMWc8rUg7x/8LqnOJmDUfcbDtHW1PN1P2tf2G79nwbExanItgKdiIJ4Y/qoiiSux9+sar9VN6pktI+egH4wpszxFcc26GdGLvMNdf2HL9bKVB4Dmxs29dBYzCp4TALqqDR7Zs7WkC03KJV5lsgg= I have a confused question. After FileVault is turned on in my home directory, then I run a installer with plugins. All executable files in installer plugin bundles, such as "xxx.bundle/Comtents/MacOSX/yyy", are automatically moved into a random named directory /tmp/com.apple.instaler????/ It causes the original directory hierarchy changed, and will result installer plugins do not work. How can I avoid this situation and prevent these bundle files moved when I turn on FileVault? Can I set these execute files some special file permission? I found there were rare documents mentioned about FileVault. If someone has any suggestion, please do me a favor. Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ 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: Gestalt help required with Iceberg
by Mike Fischer 21 May '08

21 May '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com There is a more basic problem though: Instead use the three selectors: gestaltSystemVersionMajor = 'sys1', gestaltSystemVersionMinor = 'sys2', gestaltSystemVersionBugFix = 'sys3' HTH Mike -- Mike Fischer Softwareentwicklung, EDV-Beratung Schulung, Vertrieb Note: I read this list in digest mode! Send me a private copy for faster responses. _______________________________________________ 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.… Am 21.05.2008 um 18:23 schrieb "Glover,David" <David.Glover(a)prometheanworld.com>: I'm using Iceberg to create packages and only want some to be installed on certain versions of Mac OS. To do this I'm setting up some requirements that use gestalt to retrieve the system version - the only problem is that gestalt doesn't return 10.3.9 for example, but returns the value as 4153. And if you convert that decimal number to hex you get: 0x1039. Does that ring a bell? ;-) This is fine, but I cannot find what the gestalt value is for any other OS versions other than 10.3.9! Does anyone know this information, or point me in the right direction? You are using the gestaltSystemVersion ('sysv') selector. It only allows for single digit BCD BugFix parts of the version. So any version of Tiger after 10.4.9 can't be represented! See the Gestalt Manager Reference for details. <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/ Gestalt_Manager/> This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Gestalt help required with Iceberg
by Fritz Anderson 21 May '08

21 May '08

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Gestalt help required with Iceberg
by Glover,David 21 May '08

21 May '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Aci7XSaMSqkO+6aFRxilkXkT1xf96w== Thread-topic: Gestalt help required with Iceberg _______________________________________________ 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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