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Re: Packaging Newbie, trying to edit a package
by Taylor Armstrong 21 May '08

21 May '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) Thanks Michael, thanks, Taylor If you make a package with InstallEase, there is an option to make an IceBerg Project file. Once you do that, you can open that IceBerg project and easly add scripts in the scripts section then use IceBerg to make a package that includes the scripts. -Mike On 5/20/08 3:31 PM, "Taylor Armstrong" <Taylor.Armstrong(a)noaa.gov> wrote: Relative newbie here. I've used the LanRev "InstallEase" utility to build a snapshot package (Acrobat Pro) that seems to work well. What I'm trying to do now is to simply add a couple of pre-flight scripts, specifically to remove (uninstall) Acrobat Pro 7 and Acrobat Reader prior to installing Acrobat 8. I can open the pkg format up in PackageMaker, but don't quite know where to go after that... I also have Iceberg on my system, but haven't experimented with it much. If it is any help at all, I also created a .dmg from InstallEase, so I have the full file hierarchy if I need to re-create any of the process. The end goal is to deploy the package via our ARD task server, so just trying to find a good seamless way to rip out the old version and install the new, but don't really know the secret to un-installing the old version. thanks for any suggestions, tips, or guidance, Taylor -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ W. Taylor Armstrong Taylor.Armstrong(a)noaa.gov National Ocean Service IT Support 1305 East-West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone (301) 713-2644 http://nos.noaa.gov/ IT Support Request Email: nos.helpdesk(a)noaa.gov ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ 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/perbix%40lmsd.org This email sent to perbix(a)lmsd.org -- _______________________________________________ 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'll remember that *next* time I create something :) Looks like I can do what I want this time by dropping the scripts into the Contents/Resources/Scripts directory and renaming them appropriately. I'll keep the Iceberg project option in mind for the future though. Perbix, Michael wrote: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ W. Taylor Armstrong Taylor.Armstrong(a)noaa.gov National Ocean Service IT Support 1305 East-West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone (301) 713-2644 http://nos.noaa.gov/ IT Support Request Email: nos.helpdesk(a)noaa.gov ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Packaging Newbie, trying to edit a package
by Perbix, Michael 21 May '08

21 May '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Aci6sBuU9nrq2mfJRpeR2pRVMiM80QAkgsEa Thread-topic: Packaging Newbie, trying to edit a package If you make a package with InstallEase, there is an option to make an IceBerg Project file. Once you do that, you can open that IceBerg project and easly add scripts in the scripts section then use IceBerg to make a package that includes the scripts. -Mike On 5/20/08 3:31 PM, "Taylor Armstrong" <Taylor.Armstrong(a)noaa.gov> wrote: Relative newbie here. I've used the LanRev "InstallEase" utility to build a snapshot package (Acrobat Pro) that seems to work well. What I'm trying to do now is to simply add a couple of pre-flight scripts, specifically to remove (uninstall) Acrobat Pro 7 and Acrobat Reader prior to installing Acrobat 8. I can open the pkg format up in PackageMaker, but don't quite know where to go after that... I also have Iceberg on my system, but haven't experimented with it much. If it is any help at all, I also created a .dmg from InstallEase, so I have the full file hierarchy if I need to re-create any of the process. The end goal is to deploy the package via our ARD task server, so just trying to find a good seamless way to rip out the old version and install the new, but don't really know the secret to un-installing the old version. thanks for any suggestions, tips, or guidance, Taylor -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ W. Taylor Armstrong Taylor.Armstrong(a)noaa.gov National Ocean Service IT Support 1305 East-West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone (301) 713-2644 http://nos.noaa.gov/ IT Support Request Email: nos.helpdesk(a)noaa.gov ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ 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/perbix%40lmsd.org This email sent to perbix(a)lmsd.org _______________________________________________ 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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Robert L Maggi/593567/EKC is out of the office.
by robert.maggi＠kodak.com 20 May '08

20 May '08

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Packaging Newbie, trying to edit a package
by Taylor Armstrong 20 May '08

20 May '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) Relative newbie here. thanks for any suggestions, tips, or guidance, Taylor -- _______________________________________________ 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've used the LanRev "InstallEase" utility to build a snapshot package (Acrobat Pro) that seems to work well. What I'm trying to do now is to simply add a couple of pre-flight scripts, specifically to remove (uninstall) Acrobat Pro 7 and Acrobat Reader prior to installing Acrobat 8. I can open the pkg format up in PackageMaker, but don't quite know where to go after that... I also have Iceberg on my system, but haven't experimented with it much. If it is any help at all, I also created a .dmg from InstallEase, so I have the full file hierarchy if I need to re-create any of the process. The end goal is to deploy the package via our ARD task server, so just trying to find a good seamless way to rip out the old version and install the new, but don't really know the secret to un-installing the old version. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ W. Taylor Armstrong Taylor.Armstrong(a)noaa.gov National Ocean Service IT Support 1305 East-West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone (301) 713-2644 http://nos.noaa.gov/ IT Support Request Email: nos.helpdesk(a)noaa.gov ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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One package overrides folder of another package ?
by Ruslan Zasukhin 20 May '08

20 May '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Aci6r4vyyob3jCaiEd2jDwANkzDgag== Thread-topic: One package overrides folder of another package ? User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.0.050811 Hi List, We have two similar products: VServer_Office VServer_Embedded. They must installs folders as /Library StartupItems VServer_Embedded VServer_Office VServer_Embedded VServer_Office User usually will install only one of these products, But must be possible isntall both. So I have made new installers using PackageMaker 3.0 VServer_Embedded.pmdoc VServer_Office.pmdoc Of course I have specify for each sub-package own identifier for example com.paradigmasoft.vserver.embedded.startup com.paradigmasoft.vserver.embedded.exec Now PROBLEM: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I do install, e.g. VServer_Office.mpkg This installs /Library StartupItems VServer_Office VServer_Office Then I install VServer_Embedded.mpkg and OPS, instead getting additional folders, I see in Finder that VServer_Office fodlers are DELETED (???) and instead are installed VServer_Embedded folders. Why VServer_Office fodlers are deleted ? I have check everything inside mpdoc, pkgs, xml files.... How OS X decide that it must TRASH vserver_office folders ? Please help. -- Best regards, Ruslan Zasukhin VP Engineering and New Technology Paradigma Software, Inc Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information http://www.paradigmasoft.com [I feel the need: the need for speed] _______________________________________________ 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: Problems with the InstallationCheck script
by Fosse 20 May '08

20 May '08

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Can't run InstallationCheck for Meta Package
by Fosse 20 May '08

20 May '08

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Bug with the Create Cookie File action?
by Jose R.C.Cruz 19 May '08

19 May '08

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Re: image creation
by henri 15 May '08

15 May '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Radmind Tools : http://www.lucidsystems.org/tools/radmind Hope this helps. _______________________________________________ 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 this site we have a single 10.5 image. This image works on all the hardware on site and it works on both PPC and Intel systems. If you get new hardware you may need to use a later build of the operating system in order to get all the hardware working. Admittedly, there are no MacBook Air units (yet) to worry about on this site. I think the key is to ensure that your base OS can easily be rebuilt so that when you get new shipment of hardware it is not a complete nightmare to get it working. There are many approaches to this problem. If you do want a separate base load set for each of your machines you may be interested in the following link which has some tools to make radmind detect the OS and select base load-sets based on the underlying OS. This is very handy if you are running 10.4 or earlier and may be handy if you are 'lucky' enough to be managing a Mac Book Air deployment. When creating images, apparently the prevailing theory is that you should create an image for each form factor - use an emac to create an emac image, ibook G4 - ibook G4 image, etc. I am trying to understand if the reason for that was if there was something unique to the OS for each form factor or if it was what happened after the OS was installed during the process of installing all the other components of the image. I work in a school where we have iBook G4's, eMacs, MacBooks and Intel iMacs. I don't know where you read that prevailing theory but it's not true. You can have a single image per architecture (PPC or Intel) unless you have a different reason for another image. I have 1 image for PPC Tiger and 1 for Intel Tiger. There is nothing different installed for different form factors with the exception of maybe santa rosa Macs but that was a weird situation. And now with Leopard, 1 image will work with both architectures. PS. This is the wrong list for this. You should join system-imaging list. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: image creation
by Patrick Gallagher 15 May '08

15 May '08

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