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Re: getting pkg path from installer plugin
by Philip Aker 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com ls -la /Volumes/*/.VolumeIcon.icns On 08-07-10, at 05:50, Nethan Aryan wrote: ls -la /Volumes/*/.VolumeIcon.icns Philip Aker echo astwta@lvpc.dslh@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@ Democracy: Two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch. _______________________________________________ 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.… In my installer plugIns, I want to know the installer path from where the installer got launched. Currently I am getting that using [NSBundle bundleForClass:[self class]]; But the problem is: in case user runs the installer from .dmg file, the installer.app copies my plugins into a /tmp folder and then loads them, which means I am not getting the pkg path from which customer has actually launched the pkg installer. Can you suggest a way to get the actual installer pkg path within a Plugin? I think you could iterate /Volumes/* for a known top-level filename. For instance this shell script shows all my volumes that have a custom icon: Given that you know the name of your plugin and most likely, the name of the installer pkg… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: how to create the uninstaller on Mac Os
by Don Montalvo 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com sandeep chaudhary <ims_sandeep(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Thanks -sandeep Thanks, Don _______________________________________________ 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.… Hi All, I am a plugin Developer. I have created a installer on mac . Now i want to create the uninstaller for that,but don't know how to create the uninstaller.I have search on google but can find any solution. Please tell me how to create the uninstaller. I always wondered the same thing. Once in a while I find a proper pkg installer that offers the option to install or uninstall. Not sure if a pkg installer like this is "pushable" via ARD, but for those rare cases where we need to equip our Helpdesk folks to uninstall something, this ability would come in handy. PS, not sure what Apple's logic is regarding giving us NO WAY to roll back or uninstall stuff...not good position to be in when you're in an enterprise environment. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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getting pkg path from installer plugin
by Nethan Aryan 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

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PackageMaker: Postinstall with Components in XCode 3.0
by Tobias Prinz 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello there, Thanks in advance, Tierlieb _______________________________________________ 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 got a slight problem using PackageMaker (XCode 3.0 on OSX 10.5.2). Currently, I am doing some integration work, like automatically setting up WebDAV shares and installing IMAP accounts. These scripts are all done with Automator and are .app files (folders, actually). I am trying to build the installer for these tools (and this is, to me at least, much more complicated than programming). The plan was to have the installer start both scripts, which then will setup WebDAV shares and IMAP accounts. I found out that I can either use an absolute path or refer to a component. Since I cannot be sure the tools will already be installed, I opted for making them components by adding them to the package, installing them and then executing them. I take it one uses PackageMaker to build packages on a Mac. I also guessed that Package Maker is PackageMaker.app, which may be a wrong assumption and I should use the command-line tool instead. There is a short guide to PackageMaker in the Apple Developer Connection pages, which I followed. There is also a lot of information at least two years old (April 2006, way before XCode 3.0) in the "Software Delivery" part of the ADC. Yet I have not found a solution to my problems: I'll recap what I did: 1. Start PackageMaker.app ("PM" from here on). 2. Enter company information 3. Drag and drop the two Automator apps into my new package (which is now called meta package, I guess, because it contains two new packages) 4. Set the ownership on these two packages to root:admin 5. Set the installation path to /Applications 6. Select the actions menu for the meta package 7. Add two postinstall actions: 7a. Action: Open file 7b. Type: Component 7c. [Select one of the programs] 8. Click 'Build and run' Here is what happens: a. The installer starts building, no errors b. I get prompted for the admin password c. I get prompted to select a harddrive for the installation, I am informed that the installation will take up 1020kByte d. After the installation finishes, I am stuck with two applications installed that take up 0kB according to Finder and 136kByte according to my terminal. e. Trying to execute these, I am informed that these programs will not run on this architecture. Since they work otherwise, I take it this is just a somewhat misleading error message for a broken file. f. The postinstall actions were not executed Here are some variations I tried but to no avail: i. Changing the folders from /Applications to /Application/[Toolname], to /tmp, to /tmp/[toolname] ii. Changing the postinstall actions from 'component' to 'absolute path' iii. Changing user rights from root:admin to [myUsername]:staff iv. Removing a bunch of .svn files and folders that were hidden within the apps by unselecting them in PM. Now my question: What is it I am doing wrong? I had a simple working test when I decided to use package maker. But that did just call a post-install action with absolute path. Plus the copying of files worked, so I am a bit dumbstruck here. Why doesn't PM copy the apps properly? Is that the reason why it does not execute the postinstall actions? Or may postinstall actions not be .app files? And another one: Is PM the right tool? Next steps include installing a normal program, deleting the tools installed (I would have loved to run them without installing, but that seems to be impossible), installing a PrefPane and a cron job. Can PM do this at all? Or is there a commercial tool better suited for the job? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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how to add the model dialog during installation
by Andrew Li 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcjiWVLS/5vQE77tSGO+Sk1wDcZAig== Thread-topic: how to add the model dialog during installation _______________________________________________ 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: how to add more then two installer plugins in package maker
by Stéphane Sudre 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com - What does your InstallerSections.plist file look like? Could it be that it only contains one entry for one plugin? - The name and bundle identifier of your packages are different, right? _______________________________________________ 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 Jul 9, 2008, at 9:19 PM, sandeep chaudhary wrote: Hi All, I am a plugin developer. I want to add two UI in my installer.One Ui for license information in which user enter the product key. another Ui is for choosing the different destination location by user at the time of intallation.I have created the two installer plugins for these two UI,But when i add these plugins to my installer , Only one is working at a time. So how can i add two installer plugins in my installer This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: PackageMaker 2 - dynamic install location?
by Bill Coderre 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Jul 9, 2008, at 4:33 AM, Nicholas Meyer wrote: (We are currently still using Tiger, so I would need to use PackageMaker 2 to do this) Not really. PackageMaker 3 in Leopard's dev tools is perfectly happy to create packages which work with Tiger and Leopard. I think the "search for stuff to update" features are better than they were in PackageMaker 2. _______________________________________________ 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: how to create the uninstaller on Mac Os
by Thomas Berglund 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '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:cc:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=9JvwwHcwLbxHc2xy4FtUr+88vdhaOZyqBdNRdRNY/Ms=; b=fMdhcM9NyjWLhprvmM3EniB3Ol33+8ynKXvk+/ulaI86G4o9kEBKMv4R/4KKumMJY3 mcjSmcpQ1exMZ+i5pUtxanuo1uTC+OxS8lti7nLTXKREfu4fcZijXQH/yxuu3T2/dqb9 txkDsgYnH0kZHvne9NLLYKlAqbd+lMgOORsYw= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; b=Lel5XY0zCuhd/BES+hEKqU6UEzfqnUoq3pxYpoG2BwdysxOI53mqzgEIEdPx981o6x N3uolVeWGLP6BpF43BzA//TVuh1EnQ2DDk1JDiAquJa3nLyGvVtcdChgOJ8nCjdRSmZb 6gTYWAQW425kopOG8k9hBzdJ/vUli21UVEIpA= Have a look at LANrev's InstallEase: http://www.lanrev.com/solutions/installease.shtml -Thomas Berglund On 9. juli. 2008, at 21.33, sandeep chaudhary wrote: Thanks -sandeep Meet people who discuss and share your passions. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/bestofyahoo/ _______________________________________________ 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/thomas.berglund%40gmai… _______________________________________________ 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 not tried making an uninstaller with it yet, but it looks like it will do the job. "For easier rollbacks of software installations, InstallEase can build an uninstaller PKG from an existing PKG. This ensures that only new files that were added are removed so you can be assured that no system critical files are accidentally deleted during the rollback. Uninstaller PKGs can also be based on snapshot data or manually specified filesystem entries." Hi All, I am a plugin Developer. I have created a installer on mac . Now i want to create the uninstaller for that,but don't know how to create the uninstaller.I have search on google but can find any solution. Please tell me how to create the uninstaller. This email sent to thomas.berglund(a)gmail.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Out of the office
by connie.haag＠kodak.com 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

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how to create the uninstaller on Mac Os
by sandeep chaudhary 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '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:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=FoElqgzrOmEcKe9XCiS7qIkK1dG1nHpQWcPJRC7bK4bG01cZwQdFnibvho9hTN58+kFlFI+0sFBTF/6jq5yYp731uMokmYWWwfv5D3jUVM/PNG5MjynerUSL5AZ1hIXrS9hdkrWXf2Zva+NcYk1132C7ukbHnyDKzZloYGm3ZMo=; Hi All, I am a plugin Developer. I have created a installer on mac . Now i want to create the uninstaller for that,but don't know how to create the uninstaller.I have search on google but can find any solution. Please tell me how to create the uninstaller. Thanks -sandeep Meet people who discuss and share your passions. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/bestofyahoo/ _______________________________________________ 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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