September 2008 - Installer-dev

PackageMaker 3.0.3
by Jeremy Matthews 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thanks, jeremy _______________________________________________ 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.… ...seems to finally "remember" destination paths and fix a few other bugs - anyone else been testing this since its release? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: packagemaker errors
by Philip Aker 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Jeremy Matthews wrote: I have seen this one when the input file was not well formed. (…); is an array {…}; is a dictionary blah = blah; is a string 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.… using packagemaker 3.0.1 (from orig 3.0.1 xcode tools). I know, PM 3.x has LOT of issues...but has anyone else seen these errors: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary. Basically it's talking about what I know as an "ASCII" plist (see the Xcode project.pbxproj file in a some.xcodeproj folder for example). I've never found any official documentation for them but things are kind of obvious: What happens is that all entries _except_ the main container have to have a semicolon immediately after the closing delimiter and some plist facilities are more lenient than other about these conditions. In my case, I was creating this type of plist manually so I can't report an error. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: PackageMaker
by Stéphane Sudre 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Sep 11, 2008, at 5:56 AM, J. Todd Slack wrote: Hi Nick, Thank you for the reply. _______________________________________________ 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 dont quite see how to add file to package maker and have them install in /usr/local/bin. With PackageMaker 3.x, drag and drop. And then you specify the destination folder. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: packagemaker errors
by Stéphane Sudre 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Sep 11, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Jeremy Matthews wrote: Could it be related to the filesystem? _______________________________________________ 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.… An error occurred while creating the AppleDouble file for Register.htm (Error -5000) Could not split /private/tmp/pkmk.rBTu0/copy.gfcz/Application Warning: "/Developer/Tools/SplitForks" failed to preserve resource forks with error code 1. .htm is usually the Windows version of .html so maybe you're not building the package on a HFS volume. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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packagemaker errors
by Jeremy Matthews 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com using packagemaker 3.0.1 (from orig 3.0.1 xcode tools). Thanks, jeremy _______________________________________________ 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 know, PM 3.x has LOT of issues...but has anyone else seen these errors: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary. An error occurred while creating the AppleDouble file for Register.htm (Error -5000) Could not split /private/tmp/pkmk.rBTu0/copy.gfcz/Application Warning: "/Developer/Tools/SplitForks" failed to preserve resource forks with error code 1. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: PackageMaker
by J. Todd Slack 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi Nick, Thank you for the reply. There are components and contents etc, etc. How might I do this? -Jason On Sep 10, 2008, at 5:56 PM, J. Todd Slack wrote: Hi All, A few questions about PackageMaker 1. I can have it install files in /usr/local/bin? Is /usr/local/bin part of the users path by default? -Jason _______________________________________________ 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/mailinglists%40jasonan… _______________________________________________ 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 dont quite see how to add file to package maker and have them install in /usr/local/bin. Also, if a directory does not exist, How can I have it added to the right place? If not, can PackageMaker make Symlinks and put them in /usr/bin for me? This email sent to mailinglists(a)jasonandannette.us This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: How to set follow symlinks for flat packages?
by Crawford Kyle 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '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=kwvY0jSmHg08UFBseah1d0pAiFNRT4ayqVsBnszAqFM=; b=LwdMGKZYb2w6vlckca0SKFxbGPVB2iOq26K5kutbSETtKuiR6GVhLUvUjZOvL3nJW1 hrwEjBntpAtDYJybJY6Ux6Llz1L9fr4A1vTr8FeCGklycmhzVzWV4M2G7tKZTTnc2J/K N6bQ2Vwm/fJSpQMa3Ic0oovyHAY0j+8qozbGY= 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=PPsZK/vvp3nHQ8W13uBV83y6j3dNeoixOVrwRHXfYjaPBtsKqmkV4sEhtRNBgG7FFF Dz4a9Y1avOi4wPh4cvaO6k+z3R65KUyhBaWtsP1+5s91NJ87R61V0zY61PRhak8YWJxp Tocynd97REDQEnJ5DrCK7B2Qfomu0k6OXg8+g= On Sep 10, 2008, at 3:49 AM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: On Sep 9, 2008, at 9:53 PM, Crawford Kyle wrote: Kyle _______________________________________________ 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 see the option in the Package Flags when I control click the package in the PackageMaker GUI, but I don't see where it gets set for 10.5 packages. For 10.4 packages it seems to be IFPkgFlagFollowLinks in the Info.plist. In 10.5 my symlinks are clobbered so I'm trying to find out where this is set. Or is this a massive bug with 10.5 packages? I haven't seen any option for this with FLAT packages (the only one I know is overwrite-permissions which is not supported by PackageMaker). I would have thought this option was turned on by default because when you try to install something into /tmp, it's correctly installed in /private/tmp/. This would require testing what happens if you install a tmp folder with a file inside it in /. It looks like the issue I'm seeing is only if you try to embed a non- flat package into a flat package distribution. In that case the symlinks get blasted. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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PackageMaker
by J. Todd Slack 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi All, A few questions about PackageMaker 1. I can have it install files in /usr/local/bin? Is /usr/local/bin part of the users path by default? If not, can PackageMaker make Symlinks and put them in /usr/bin for me? -Jason _______________________________________________ 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 set follow symlinks for flat packages?
by Stéphane Sudre 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Sep 9, 2008, at 9:53 PM, Crawford Kyle 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.… I see the option in the Package Flags when I control click the package in the PackageMaker GUI, but I don't see where it gets set for 10.5 packages. For 10.4 packages it seems to be IFPkgFlagFollowLinks in the Info.plist. In 10.5 my symlinks are clobbered so I'm trying to find out where this is set. Or is this a massive bug with 10.5 packages? I haven't seen any option for this with FLAT packages (the only one I know is overwrite-permissions which is not supported by PackageMaker). I would have thought this option was turned on by default because when you try to install something into /tmp, it's correctly installed in /private/tmp/. This would require testing what happens if you install a tmp folder with a file inside it in /. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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How to set follow symlinks for flat packages?
by Crawford Kyle 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

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