September 2008 - Installer-dev

Re: PackageMaker 3.0.3 and the receipt DB
by JongAm Park 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '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:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=SFijAw9/3X/Y95Z8J0sqWGpCU2NGTg12g64Be6Vn827KnZHjDfe2vuRYCaS71wesL2xkjr7QV5GqDlzD90TAUrhpPSbC3EH5SoWhe4MT/Dv8O0gC7i98xLLW8Z5Rbyo1m/HIXrLkUXvNhHUjcbMimNZcCvF0+YgziuSWR4rONjE= ; User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) Hello, again. It has 5 different options : 1. Check specific path : check if the interested file is already installed at the "specific path". If so, it upgrades the file by replacing the existing one with the new one supplied in the installer package. If not, it just installs the new one at the "specific path". 2. Check Launch Services : check launch service configuration to figure out where the "executables" are. 3. Exhaustive Search : searches every thing, even in other installer packages and the one in Xcode's build directory. ( Still sounds like too much.. ) 4. Combination Search : combination of above 3? ( how about the 5 below? ) ( This is the default. ) 5. JavaScript Search : Where to search, what to search and so on are supplied with a given JavaScript function. (Oh.. so "combination search" doesn't include this. ) On 17 Sep 2008, at 19:38, JongAm Park wrote: Try unchecking the relocatable checkbox. /Robert _______________________________________________ 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 thought about the various options which were presented when the "Relocation..." button on the bottom of the PackageMaker window was clicked. ) I searched if there was a document for this, but I couldn't find.) In my opinion, "1" should be the default, not the "4", and "4" is too much. The Exhaustive search done by the "4" should contain paths to existing installer packages and build directory in its hidden "Exclude Directories" option. ( It looks to me that it just uses the options set in "3". but I didn't test it. ) Robert Claeson wrote: 2. It sometimes picks some other destination path than the one which was designated using the PackageMaker. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: PackageMaker Leopard To Tiger
by Stéphane Sudre 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:43 AM, J. Todd Slack wrote: Hi All, _______________________________________________ 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 build a package on Leopard, but my Tiger users cannot use it. They get a javaScript that says: "There was an error while evaluating Javascript of the Package” Can I build a Tiger installer from Leopard (I dont even have a machine that runs Tiger anymore) Yes, you can. When PackagerMaker displays the first sheet after creating a document, select the Target to be Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: PackageMaker 3.0.3 and the receipt DB
by JongAm Park 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '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:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=YoW4pUjvx7WQHrw8LFkFIsH17v5yHh3Ecl/kIMpYPGJDVg+8Pw6e5VHSBJIKix0WXhYd/6UllFuSHTWBocJ+anRsKxTh/eAtrHtwOTtQJVOiH1Hf114L2aIpTm0REgY+FaWwBYH9a09el4uYPpAf+CcZVYsaCf5yf1RNORUMX+0= ; User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) Hello, Mr. Claeson. Thank you for your reply. Thank you for your guidance. JongAm Park On 17 Sep 2008, at 19:38, JongAm Park wrote: Try unchecking the relocatable checkbox. /Robert _______________________________________________ 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 tried building two installers, one is with "Allow Relocation" turned on, and the other is with the option turned off. I doesn't seem to make difference though. The option is originally for allowing users move the installed files after installation. Probably it is because I successfully install the interested file previously. The document says : When the user installs a relocatable component a second time on the same computer, the installer application searches for the component's existing files in additional locations in the file system, not just the location at which the component was installed, according to the installer package database. So, it may help on a troubled machine we tried install it, but on my local MacBook Pro, I installed it to the /Applications folder a few times successfully, so the one with the "relocation" option should be able to install the files to the /Applications folder consistently, but it didn't. So,.. what I guess now is that.. probably turning on the "Allow relocation" can be a temporary solution to my installation problem. Anyway, I think Apple should be more clear on this policy also. It seems to me that it recognized the interested files in a previous version of the installer package, and it "touched" the one in the installer package. So, according to the document, it searched the existing file, but it was too much! (The default one was "Combination Search" with its default path is set to /Applications/***.app and its identifier as com.<companyname>.<productname>. Because its default path is set to /Applications/***.app, it should check the location and if no such one exists, it should install files there, not searching the same one in Xcode project's build directory or another installer package's content. ) Robert Claeson wrote: 2. It sometimes picks some other destination path than the one which was designated using the PackageMaker. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Installer Package Bundle
by Neal Sidhwaney 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

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Re: PackageMaker 3.0.3 and the receipt DB
by Robert Claeson 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On 17 Sep 2008, at 19:38, JongAm Park wrote: Try unchecking the relocatable checkbox. /Robert _______________________________________________ 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 2. It sometimes picks some other destination path than the one which was designated using the PackageMaker. smime.p7s

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PackageMaker 3.0.3 and the receipt DB
by JongAm Park 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '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=CdDergbbhcjzHnEhOqhBkqseNoI5z52mDi5fhinXyPExVOXdmeDrq4SRxFsycPCMJvdU2oCiLmF3EspjaQE6nThODlm+6VA7yHRUegWdx47UaU2BvmvuuyCYoa/FcI2XpHZEUYXf51jLXlh4sj47w8wX5j3s6W5NW+oA/A8MYCM= ; User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) Hello, all. If so, it presents two major issues. (Tested on Mac OS X 10.5.5 and PackageMaker 3.0.3 ) Thank you. JongAm Park _______________________________________________ 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 made another installer package by luck and it could be installed well on a MacBook pro. However, my colleague complained that the log said that it touched a file in /Library/Application Supports/.../Plugins directory, which meant that it tried installed the program in that directory, but actually it didn't. So, I checked what is different from my machine and his machine by issuing pkgutil --pkgs. It showed a ID for the package and contained the troubled directory path. So, I removed the information using pkgutil --forget ... After doing so, it could install the program to the /Applications directory. Actually I noticed that installer package made with the PackageMaker 3.0.3 didn't add information to the receipt DB, although it did so with its previous versions as far as I remember. Is it a new behavior introduced by the PackageMaker 3.0.3? ( I believe it was from the Xcode 3.1.1 distribution. ) 1. It doesn't override/remove old information in the receipt DB 2. It sometimes picks some other destination path than the one which was designated using the PackageMaker. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Installer Package Bundle
by Howard Shere 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

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Creating shortcuts on the users desktop
by Glover,David 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

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Files are tried to be installed in unexpected directory - 2
by JongAm Park 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

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PackageMaker Leopard To Tiger
by J. Todd Slack 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

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