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Re: Add app icon to Dock
by Stéphane Sudre 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com No need to disable admin auth: _______________________________________________ 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 Jun 20, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Bryan S. Lee wrote: How are you running the script? As a postinstall? You could add a line to the script to create a file on the desktop so that you can see if it is engaging. I’ve had a script that engaged but not work properly because I needed it to run as the user and left PackageMaker set to run with admin authentication on, which then ran the script as root. Had to turn admin auth off. http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/Installer/Installation_Scripts/ InstallationScripts-FAQ001.html This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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[Q] How to add a program as a login item after installing?
by JongAm Park 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '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-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=KBGxjE1AsUNwwaUlK1AH2U84bJRY6PXPcNl7kd18lmD0YyHBRJO/P07taVT741bIYAgil5EmikKCN/VuZ46qKdS1cE+kX4bqo/PNAGtGuWK2XdhdbcWTjtro0p6g1/QDnIG6QmOSR6m+he2uTvCi0V5nfyo3/Azd7mdtGwLtmQs= ; User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) Hello, all. I'm trying hard to wrap an application program using the PackageMaker. By searching on the Apple site, I could copy & paste this AppleScript : It is saved as an application and also added to the package. Can anyone help me to solve this problem? Thank you. _______________________________________________ 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.… tell application "System Events" make new login item at end with properties { path:"/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins/blah blah.app", hidden:false} end tell After choosing the whole packages heading and I added the Apple Script app as a post installation item. However, it doesn't add the blahblah.app to the login item. If I double click the file in the Finder, it adds the interested app to the login item successfully. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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--filter option
by Karl Kuehn 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

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RE: PackageMaker 3 issues resolved?
by Steve Swanson 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcjS5RAgtjgKXov5RTSFhewwOTY3JwAIcOdg Thread-topic: PackageMaker 3 issues resolved? I'm pretty much in the same situation as you. I've gone from total despair at the beginning of the week to a working installer as of yesterday. I get bit by the "relocable" setting randomly. All I can do is visually check whether the box is checked before I save. I also get hit by a random change from 755 to 775 on one of my subpackages. (The owner/group doesn't seem to change.) Fortunately, it's for a driver so the error shows up immediately as the system tries to load the driver. I wrote a postflight script to force the permissions. But my plugin works, driver unload/load seems to work, conditional installation seems to work. So the news isn't all bad. Yes, the documentation situation is very annoying. Steve -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 7:51 AM To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: PackageMaker 3 issues resolved? I seem to have stumbled into getting it right, though I'm not sure I understand why. <snip> Sorry to be so grumpy -- it isn't like me. But I've lost a lot of time that could have been saved by better documentation. As soon as I find more time, I will cite chapter and verse in a documentation radar. _______________________________________________ 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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How to control component package names?
by Bill Cheeseman 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcjS8c97twd7otySQbWd9dyjw3ZW7w== Thread-topic: How to control component package names? User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.10.0.080409 PackageMaker 3 automatically names component packages when I add a component to a project. I can't find a way to control these names, or in particular their capitalization. For example, my PFEventTaps.framework folder is given the automatic name "pfeventtaps.pkg," and my Event Taps Testbench application is automatically given the name "eventTapsTestbench.pkg." (I can't make out the logic that causes one of them to have all its capital letters converted to lowercase, while the other has only its first capital letter converted to lower case.) This is unfortunate, because Installer displays these names as is during installation. I would rather the user see that "PFEventTaps" or "PFEventTaps Framework" is currently being installed, than "pfeventtaps." Changing the package identifier in PackageMaker has no effect. Naming the install choices has no effect, either. The latter is especially surprising, because I would have expected the editable installer choice name to be used for this purpose as well as for the purpose of populating the customize dialog in Installer. I suppose I could change the component package names via script, but I fear that this might interfere with the functioning of the installer package. Can anybody steer me in a useful direction on this? -- Bill Cheeseman - bill(a)cheeseman.name Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA www.quecheesoftware.com PreFab Software - www.prefabsoftware.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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PackageMaker 3 issues resolved?
by Bill Cheeseman 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcjS5RAgtjgKXov5RTSFhewwOTY3Jw== Thread-topic: PackageMaker 3 issues resolved? User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.10.0.080409 I seem to have stumbled into getting it right, though I'm not sure I understand why. I think it has something to do with the "relocatable" setting, which apparently causes the installer to decline to install the product in the designated /Applications folder if it finds the same version already installed somewhere else on the target disk (such as in my Builds/Release folder, where it always is while I'm still putting my product together). I may have seen that documented somewhere, or at least hinted at, without appreciating its significance. I followed a number of false leads, some of them due to inaccuracies or incomplete information in the article about PackageMaker 3 in the June 2008 issue of MacTech. For example, that article tells us to go through the exercise of setting up a project folder reproducing the anticipated folder hierarchy of the target installation. A number of articles about PackageMaker 2 tell us to do that, too, and I assumed it was a requirement of PackageMaker 3. It turns out that it is not, although I suppose it might be a convenience over time for some people to help keep revisions up to date. But as far as actually building an installation package is concerned, I have discovered that dragging the release builds directly out of my Builds/Release folder into the PackageMaker 3 window works perfectly well, as long as I specify the final destination path correctly. There are several incorrect or misleading instructions as well as omissions in Apple's PackageMaker 3 Guide, as well. And it certainly doesn't help that the Software Deliver Guide, which we are told is required reading, hasn't been revised since 2006 (packageMaker 2 days, I guess). And it has content problems as well, apparently having been cobbled together from older pieces and newer pieces without adequate connective explanations to make it sufficiently clear that some sections are talking about different kinds of installers than other sections. I'm curious to know why most of the installer packages I see out in the wild show the full, final destination folder hierarchy when I open them in Pacifist. Is this something that happened by design in PackageMaker 2 that is no longer required in PackageMaker 3 (as noted above)? Sorry to be so grumpy -- it isn't like me. But I've lost a lot of time that could have been saved by better documentation. As soon as I find more time, I will cite chapter and verse in a documentation radar. -- Bill Cheeseman - bill(a)cheeseman.name Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA www.quecheesoftware.com PreFab Software - www.prefabsoftware.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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Re: Add app icon to Dock
by Bryan S. Lee 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

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Re: Installing in the user's home directory (PackageMaker Tiger and Leoprad)
by Eyal Redler 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thanks for the answers Thanks, Eyal Redler ======================================================== RedleX Makers of Mellel Support: support(a)redlers.com http://www.mellel.com -- Bryan S. Lee Information Resource Consultant II Computer Support Services Clemson Computing and Information Technology Clemson University bl(a)clemson.edu ACHDS 10.4, MCP NTS/NTW Hi, I need to install some files in the user's home directory using PackageMaker. After browsing the net for answers I understand that one possible solution to this is to install the files in some temp place and then copy them over to the user folder in the postflight script. What I'm missing are a few details: a. How do I get the path to the user home folder, considering the fact that the script is being run under root (will $HOME give me the right result? it does in my tests but I don't know where this is documented - I just saw some people use it)\ b. Are there any special considerations regarding ownership and permissions I thought this would be much more common problem and expected to find many solutions on the net but to my surprise I couldn't find and sample scripts for doing this, I would be grateful if someone could share their scripts) TIA Eyal Redler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard way." --James Randi www.eyalredler.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/bl%40clemson.edu This email sent to bl(a)clemson.edu _______________________________________________ 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.… Depends on your setup if you’ll need to mess with permissions or not, but you could chmod files in the same script if necessary. Could you elaborate a bit about this? I'm not sure I understand what you mean by setup but the files I need to install in the user directory are special templates and sample documents that need to reside in the Application Support folder. From: Eyal Redler <eyredler(a)netvision.net.il> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:38:20 -0400 To: <Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com> Subject: Installing in the user's home directory (PackageMaker Tiger and Leoprad) This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Add app icon to Dock
by Andrew Li 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

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Re: Installing in the user's home directory (PackageMaker Tiger and Leoprad)
by Robert Claeson 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On 19 Jun 2008, at 23:12, Bryan S. Lee wrote: I’d install it to /private/tmp/somefolder/ from PackageMaker _______________________________________________ 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 use the $USER variable in my scripts to get to the user’s home directory. For instance, say I’m installing a preferences file with a serial number for a particular app, but it needs to be in their ~/Library/ Preferences folder. Then have a postscript that moves the file to /Users/$USER/Library/ Preferences/ I use $HOME to get the user's home directory so the postscript becomes $HOME/Library/Preferences/ This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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