August 2008 - Installer-dev

10.5 - installer skips Target pane on second run
by Paul Miller 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) Anyone seen this? -- Paul Miller | paul(a)fxtech.com | www.fxtech.com | Got Tivo? _______________________________________________ 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 is really weird. I have an installer plugin that runs after the standard Target pane. First time I run the installer, everything works normally. The second time I run the installer, after agreeing to the license agreement, the menu (at left) jumps right past the Target pane directly to my plugin name, but the main display is stuck on the License Agreement pane. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Scripts executing differently in the installer than outside
by Chris Maddison 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '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:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date :x-mailer; bh=8xziChZv9XOZCebkeUPBBwsxlq1UMO7vm8KxN+ktVGs=; b=WNcI1JLcgyMIEjIAF0qdHlP4FhFgACLeoyTnwYhITtbyj+kKWNOlypEeTnX7zwsKcb 9JC4a8F1f5e2y5dV1gxvBGqfNxCpcEhCUjfrG1OeTQRFotWiByckn1PlNQE/wiEuOAP2 kzbcS1tfuHlDvcD72RPmbf5AobQbARajn4wng= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version:subject:date:x-mailer; b=iK+oHESm1VctOKIlxV2UQ7ehG1t2nbzwMezlPZ6Yyb5ywQ/mawhtwmilrU37HmCHeo q/hybOIlVnPpdxmC3mze1oVqPvt51cg11HZ/urxRJaqkj41smEiigocl967QMa0v4sPI xyWUc5iXMBES8TK5JFEUW83Xsp3dqH6oWLMgE= Hi, error: can't create or remove files in install directory The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files in the installation directory: /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ Sorry for the massive email! and thanks! Chris Maddison _______________________________________________ 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 am setting up an installer that installs setuptools and nose testing for Python 2.5 on OS 10.5. To run the install I am creating a temporary file with the source distributions and running short postinstall script to do the installation of the packages. The scripts I have running are fairly simple: #!/bin/sh cd $2nose_installer_temp sh setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg easy_install -v nose exit 0 When I run the equivalent script as an executable outside of the Installer it works great: /Users/chris/Documents/PyGraphics/Installer/Nose/resources/ postinstall ; exit; Corbie:~ chris$ /Users/chris/Documents/PyGraphics/Installer/Nose/ resources/postinstall ; exit; Processing setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg Removing /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg Copying setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg to /Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages setuptools 0.6c8 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing easy_install script to /Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin Installing easy_install-2.5 script to /Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin Installed /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg Processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c8 Finished processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c8 Searching for nose Best match: nose 0.10.3 Processing nose-0.10.3-py2.5.egg nose 0.10.3 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing nosetests script to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ Versions/2.5/bin changing mode of /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/ bin/nosetests to 755 Using /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/ site-packages/nose-0.10.3-py2.5.egg Processing dependencies for nose Finished processing dependencies for nose Note that this method has the correct default install location. /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin for scripts and / Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site- packages for the modules. When the SAME script is run in the installer I get: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Library/Python/2.5/site- packages/test-easy-install-4156.write-test' The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, -- prefix, or the distutils default setting) was: This directory does not currently exist. Please create it and try again, or choose a different installation directory (using the -d or --install- dir option). It seems like a different default directory is being used and I can't figure out why or how to change that. I've tried forcing it in various ways suggested in the setuptools documentation, but none of them work perfectly. Is there some quirk of shells that I don't understand, does have it have something to do with different environment variables? It makes no sense to me that they should act differently. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Package skips a component...
by Stéphane Sudre 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Aug 6, 2008, at 10:23 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: On Aug 6, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: ... if [[ -d "./root/private" ]] ; then \ chmod -R a+rwX ./root/private; \ chown -R root:admin ./root/private; \ fi This had no effect. The _FFExtensions directory is not installed. Upgrades are not working for /tmp. I tried this: 1st test ======== o 1st Installation: it works correctly. I removed the Info.plist o 2nd Installation (seen as an upgrade by Installer.app): it does not work correctly. The Info.plist file is not put back. 2nd test ======== o 1st Installation: it works correctly. I removed the Info.plist o 2nd Installation (seen as an upgrade by Installer.app): it works correctly. Info.plist is re-installed. Conclusion: =========== There's a bug in Installer.app. You should file a bug report. Possible Workarounds: ===================== o Use /Users/Shared instead of /tmp o Delete your receipts after 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.… Here are the last few lines from a lsbom of Contents/Archive.bom: ===================== ./Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/ InfoPlist.strings 100664 0/80 184 3407637100 ./Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/firefox-bin.rsrc 100664 0/80 792 3037674570 ./Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/firefox.icns 100664 0/80 62776 3334399528 ./private 40755 501/501 ./private/tmp 40777 501/80 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions 40777 501/80 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions/libx-uchicago.xpi 100666 501/80 178397 657451322 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions/nsitbookmarks.xpi 100666 501/80 7357 1514279906 ===================== ... One thing that occurs to me is that I could possibly do better with the ownership of /tmp and its contents, which the BOM has as fritza/wheel (where fritza is the name of my account, user 501, and wheel is group 80). One of the machines on which I'm seeing the failure is the one on which fritza and wheel really do exist. Advice? I did make the experiment of ensuring that all of my /private tree was owned by root/admin: ================= ./private 40777 0/80 ./private/tmp 40777 0/80 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions 40777 0/80 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions/libx-uchicago.xpi 100666 0/80 178397 657451322 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions/nsitbookmarks.xpi 100666 0/80 7357 1514279906 ================= I'd be grateful for some direction. I'm not sure where I should be looking. Well, it looks like to be a bug in Installer.app (on Mac OS X 10.4.11 at least): A package installing 2 .plist file (Info.plist and _Info.plist) in / private/tmp: A package installing 2 .plist file (Info.plist and _Info.plist) in / Applications: This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: how to give the postflight script to metapackage
by Stéphane Sudre 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Aug 6, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Gignac, Jason (HAS-SAT) wrote: _______________________________________________ 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.… Normally, you would just attach the postflight script to whichever the last child-package is. Your last child package may not be executed if it does not meet a requirement or if Installer.app decided to skip it. If you attach the postflight script to your metapackage, it will always be executed as long as at least one package is installed (or updated). On the other hand, your solution looks like one of the tricks PackageMaker 3 uses for FLAT packages. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Package skips a component...
by Fritz Anderson 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Aug 6, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: ... if [[ -d "./root/private" ]] ; then \ chmod -R a+rwX ./root/private; \ chown -R root:admin ./root/private; \ fi This had no effect. The _FFExtensions directory is not installed. — 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.… Here are the last few lines from a lsbom of Contents/Archive.bom: ===================== ./Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/ InfoPlist.strings 100664 0/80 184 3407637100 ./Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/firefox-bin.rsrc 100664 0/80 792 3037674570 ./Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/firefox.icns 100664 0/80 62776 3334399528 ./private 40755 501/501 ./private/tmp 40777 501/80 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions 40777 501/80 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions/libx-uchicago.xpi 100666 501/80 178397 657451322 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions/nsitbookmarks.xpi 100666 501/80 7357 1514279906 ===================== ... One thing that occurs to me is that I could possibly do better with the ownership of /tmp and its contents, which the BOM has as fritza/ wheel (where fritza is the name of my account, user 501, and wheel is group 80). One of the machines on which I'm seeing the failure is the one on which fritza and wheel really do exist. Advice? I did make the experiment of ensuring that all of my /private tree was owned by root/admin: ================= ./private 40777 0/80 ./private/tmp 40777 0/80 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions 40777 0/80 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions/libx-uchicago.xpi 100666 0/80 178397 657451322 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions/nsitbookmarks.xpi 100666 0/80 7357 1514279906 ================= I'd be grateful for some direction. I'm not sure where I should be looking. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Package skips a component...
by Fritz Anderson 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com The /Applications/Firefox.app tree is being installed. The installation requires admin authorization. — 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.… I have an installer package for a branded version of Firefox. For my postflight, I need to work from a directory I install in /tmp. Installer.app is skipping that directory. I'm building from the PackageMaker tool in 10.4, from Info and Description plists created long ago by Iceberg, and hand-edited from there. The PackageMaker tool reports no errors. The installer does not install my /tmp subdirectory. The 10.4 Installer.app doesn't log anything about this; in 10.5 it logs 'Skipping "./private/tmp/_FFExtensions"'. My postflight confirms that the _FFExtensions directory isn't there, and listing /tmp shows it isn't there. Here are the last few lines from a lsbom of Contents/Archive.bom: ===================== ./Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/ InfoPlist.strings 100664 0/80 184 3407637100 ./Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/firefox-bin.rsrc 100664 0/80 792 3037674570 ./Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/firefox.icns 100664 0/80 62776 3334399528 ./private 40755 501/501 ./private/tmp 40777 501/80 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions 40777 501/80 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions/libx-uchicago.xpi 100666 501/80 178397 657451322 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions/nsitbookmarks.xpi 100666 501/80 7357 1514279906 ===================== One thing that occurs to me is that I could possibly do better with the ownership of /tmp and its contents, which the BOM has as fritza/ wheel (where fritza is the name of my account, user 501, and wheel is group 80). One of the machines on which I'm seeing the failure is the one on which fritza and wheel really do exist. Advice? What should I do to pursue this (or, better, fix it)? Is there at least a diagnostic to show why Installer.app is skipping that directory? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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RE: how to give the postflight script to metapackage
by Annette Brooks 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Acj34FbfPzQ/QyjJRLiPnVhnEzLebgACfaGg Thread-topic: how to give the postflight script to metapackage _______________________________________________ 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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When the "root-volume only" is selected, is there a way to HIDE the volume selection?
by McDougall, John 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

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Re: how to give the postflight script to metapackage
by Gignac, Jason (HAS-SAT) 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Acj36fwoadLLmIO+T0yCL+xi+c2J3A== Thread-topic: how to give the postflight script to metapackage User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.11.0.080522 _______________________________________________ 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 give the postflight script to metapackage
by Sandeep Dhama 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

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