August 2008 - Installer-dev

Re: A basic question about placing and triggering preinstall and postinstall shell scripts in a PM project
by Stéphane Sudre 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Aug 28, 2008, at 11:31 PM, Neal Sidhwaney wrote: Neal Where should preinstall and postinstall shell scripts be placed for inclusion in a PackageMaker 3.0.1 project? I cannot seem to get my postinstall script to trigger after the installation of my package. Additionally, it depends on the OS you target. If you target 10.4 or earlier, you have the usual suspects: _______________________________________________ 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.… They end up in the packages Resources directory(<package>/Contents/ Resources/{post,pre}install) of the final package, but PackageMaker should place them automatically for you if you've configured the project appropriately. On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, OSullivan, Steve <OSullivan_Steven(a)emc.com> wrote: Hello All, 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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Re: A basic question about placing and triggering preinstall and postinstall shell scripts in a PM project
by Neal Sidhwaney 28 Aug '08

28 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:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=cI5PKxAgCkGd6AoPY3xpKmnR5eYQsGEysuH/zKPrxIM=; b=j8Em1SJPfZqBrJ3PLFORU/8+i7pIa9PoKzZ234V+oS96Swt1BEmdser59AfbjC9LxU QOMn9PTkIDWJ+x9vR7/0OfeR6DCRzb7sPgRblNICrH4gxlB+63YIm4N/5yWcuFSw8Npp Eaq5huZQ9NzUW0pvRVC3Uh0i9uQ+UUej1vRjA= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=bBVvkQj1iD5LWhu5qijOZ95bY7tkLpiJ91U+eQZaM9Nj0QsGuSM60bLLCcw44iz1p6 8uP9yXSnM8sjOyuJephxFoLa7uBglSBuAUomY4OrXJEBmQB3o8umr2OYzw5b9la9ADVT u0jUOAcigPVL5ubQZe2oFWfWGfU9Gg2eAD8cc= _______________________________________________ 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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A basic question about placing and triggering preinstall and postinstall shell scripts in a PM project
by OSullivan, Steve 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AckJVPzNOGR6WnZeNUeKsERbk2EdAA== Thread-topic: A basic question about placing and triggering preinstall and postinstall shell scripts in a PM project User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.11.0.080522 Hello All, Where should preinstall and postinstall shell scripts be placed for inclusion in a PackageMaker 3.0.1 project? I cannot seem to get my postinstall script to trigger after the installation of my package. TIA! SteveO _______________________________________________ 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 from command line with PackageMaker 3.0.2 and Allow Downgrade
by Aaron London 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AckI6A9OMS6qLOuKQlWPLCVa+5ZBbwAJgpxv Thread-topic: Problems from command line with PackageMaker 3.0.2 and Allow Downgrade _______________________________________________ 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 from command line with PackageMaker 3.0.2 and Allow Downgrade
by Robert Claeson 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On 28 Aug 2008, at 10:22, John Gee 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.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Forewarned: I had read about the "feature" where "Allow Relocation" is automatically turned on for an application and it silently diverts. This makes it hard to have a generic pmdoc file, but moving along... I had read about the bug where settings are not retained if a relative path is used for the "Install" source. This makes it hard to have a robust portable automated build, but moving along... I had read about the crash unless ID specified on command line. But haven't you heard about the bug where PM makes up its own package receipt names regardless of what was specified for each package? Or where Applescripts and Automator actions saved as applications are simply not packaged correctly, or at all? smime.p7s

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Problems from command line with PackageMaker 3.0.2 and Allow Downgrade
by John Gee 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Long version (My head is sore from banging it against this version of PackageMaker!) -- John Gee, ADInstruments Programmers live in interesting times... _______________________________________________ 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.… Short version: Is it worth persisting with command line use of PackageMaker 3.0.2, or give up and rollback to an older version? I have Xcode 3.1 installed on Mac OS X 10.5.4. The command line build of the installer is losing the "Allow Downgrade" setting. We allow user to have multiple version of the application installed. I want my install to "Allow custom location", and I want the application which is installed to not "Allow Relocation" and to "Allow Downgrade". Forewarned: I had read about the "feature" where "Allow Relocation" is automatically turned on for an application and it silently diverts. This makes it hard to have a generic pmdoc file, but moving along... I had read about the bug where settings are not retained if a relative path is used for the "Install" source. This makes it hard to have a robust portable automated build, but moving along... I had read about the crash unless ID specified on command line. I was cautiously optimistic I could live within these limitations for a while. I modified our build script from pmproj to pmdoc, and used an absolute location for the source. I have now discovered that "Allow Downgrade" is not working from the command line, but does seem to work fine when built interactively using the PackageMaker application. An example command line is: $ sudo /Developer/usr/bin/packagemaker --doc InstallerV3.pmdoc --out LabChart.pkg --id com.adinstruments.labchart --version 6.2 --target 10.4 Is the best answer currently to rollback to an older version of PackageMaker? Or should this be working, and I have missed something? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: command line PackageMaker build errors
by Brett George 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) Per the previous post (which was similar). Also note the use of the "-i" option, which still fails. Brett. Brett George wrote: > Hi, > > I am building a package on the command line with package maker 3.0.2. > The command is as follows: > > /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/PackageMaker > -build -p Output.pkg -r My_Install_resources -f > InstallerUserPackage/Package\ Contents -ds -d MyDescription.plist -i > MyInfo.plist > > The output is: > > 2008-08-26 10:48:18.033 PackageMaker[9528:10b] Setting to : 0 (null) > 2008-08-26 10:48:18.034 PackageMaker[9528:10b] Setting to : 0 (null) > 2008-08-26 10:48:18.035 PackageMaker[9528:10b] relocate: (null) 0 > > I know this was working at some point. > > Any ideas what is wrong? > > Brett. > _______________________________________________ > 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/brett%40apogeedigital.… > > > This email sent to brett(a)apogeedigital.com > -- ---------------------------------------------------------- *Brett George* - brett(a)apogeedigital.com Apogee Electronics - Software Engineering Manager T: +1 310.584.5435 (direct) T: +1 310.584.9394 (company) F: +1 310.584.9385 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. ---------------------------------------------------------- The content of this email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify your system manager. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. If you are the named addressee of this email note that redistribution or discussion of its contents without permission is strictly prohibited. _______________________________________________ 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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command line PackageMaker build errors
by Brett George 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi, The output is: 2008-08-26 10:48:18.033 PackageMaker[9528:10b] Setting to : 0 (null) 2008-08-26 10:48:18.034 PackageMaker[9528:10b] Setting to : 0 (null) 2008-08-26 10:48:18.035 PackageMaker[9528:10b] relocate: (null) 0 I know this was working at some point. Any ideas what is wrong? Brett. _______________________________________________ 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 building a package on the command line with package maker 3.0.2. The command is as follows: /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/PackageMaker -build -p Output.pkg -r My_Install_resources -f InstallerUserPackage/Package\ Contents -ds -d MyDescription.plist -i MyInfo.plist This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: [SOLVED] Re: GET INFO not updated was Re: Launch Services cache not updated?
by Stéphane Sudre 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Aug 25, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 9:07 PM, Bill Coderre wrote: There's a beginning of one here: http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/Installer/Menu.html _______________________________________________ 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.… When people complain, what I do is to /usr/bin/touch the app, then touch the enclosing folder. This will work, sometimes. For me, on 10.4.11 with a Java application, touching the application package and /Applications after installing worked. Thank you. My question about whether there really is an FAQ was serious. Were you being ironic? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: osascript and Mac OS X v10.5.4
by Francois Granade 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com François On Aug 22, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Gignac, Jason (HAS-SAT) wrote: On Aug 24, 2008, at 7:08 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: On Aug 22, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Francois Granade 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.… Yes, yes, it's a bad idea... I'm not proud of it. It was more a "quick way to do things" that stayed around than anything else. Better ideas are welcome. Since you asked: the script is here: http://tinyurl.com/ee-preflight . Really nothing to be proud of. I'm installing additional software (plugins) on top of an already installed applications (Eclipse distributions). see http://www.easyeclipse.org for details. If multiple distributions are already installed, I let the user choose which installation he wants to install on. Also, I was warning him if the plugin was already installed, but I know understand (thanks to your insistence) it's useless and I can remove it. I guess I'm curious what it is you're trying to do, here... Are you trying to make the installer pop up a dialog box to the user or something? IF so, I'd submit at this point that that is a trademarked "Bad Idea" as it were. Not that I can't imagine a sittuation where it would be useful, but it's not the 'right' way to do it. Are you trying to let the user configure the installation or something? If so, would it perhaps be more appropriate to do it on the first run of the app? But it's ugly, from the point of view of the user... Any other idea ? If you tell application "System Events" to display the dialog, it's less intrusive for the user. I'm resisting dog-piling onto the Bad Idea Train :) This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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