February 2009 - Installer-dev

Re: commandline Installer Creation doesn't honor Resources
by Christian Unger 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com I followed the step to remove the .svn dirs - to no avail. cu christian unger On 05.02.2009, at 22:04, Iceberg-Dev wrote: On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Christian Unger wrote: Hi, creating my installer with the following command: and the following PackageData Layout: PackageData: Resources: en.lproj: Background.jpg License.txt ReadMe.txt Scripts: postflight preflight FlatPackage Editor: <pastedGraphic.png> 2 things to do: - Remove your .svn folders _______________________________________________ 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.… But inside the distribution script I cannot find any references to any of y UI elements, anyone? /Developer/usr/bin/packagemaker --root /tmp/myProduct.dst --id de.company.myProduct --out /tmp/myProduct.pkg --version 12345 -- title myProduct Deployment --discard-forks --target 10.5 --verbose --scripts /PackageData/Scripts --resources /PackageData/Resources results in an installer which will run the specified scripts but doesn't show the Background, License nor the ReadMe, why? what am I doing wrong? - Check the contents of the 'Distribution' file. It might be possible the names for the UI attributes do not match the name of the files in the Resources folder. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: commandline Installer Creation doesn't honor Resources
by Iceberg-Dev 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

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Re: Can Packagemaker create installer with content files outside the bundle?
by Iceberg-Dev 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

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Re: Installing command line tools
by Greg Neagle 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Brent Burton wrote: * What is the best practice for installing command line tools into /usr/local/bin? * Is there a way to Iceberg behavior out of PackageMaker w.r.t. a directory's contents? -Greg _______________________________________________ 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.… Include them in the Archive.pax.gz and Archive.bom just like any other file you want to install. Sure. Bypass the GUI, don't use a pmdoc, craft your resources, and call the command-line version of packagemaker. This can be part of your automated build process. A snippet: ${INSTALL} -m 0644 -c OS_X/License.rtf ${PKGRSRCDIR} ${INSTALL} -m 0644 -c OS_X/ReadMe.rtf ${PKGRSRCDIR} ${INSTALL} -m 0644 -c OS_X/Welcome.rtf ${PKGRSRCDIR} ${INSTALL} -m 0644 -c OS_X/background.tiff ${PKGRSRCDIR} sudo chown -R root:wheel ${PKGDIR} sudo chgrp admin ${PKGDIR} /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ packagemaker \ -build -p ${PKGSRCDIR}/../${PKGNAME}.pkg \ -f ${PKGSRCDIR}/${PKGDIR} \ -r ${PKGSRCDIR}/${PKGRSRCDIR} \ -i ${PKGSRCDIR}/tmp/OS_X/Info.plist \ -d ${PKGSRCDIR}/tmp/OS_X/Description.plist * How hacky is our current tar archive payload? Any problems doing this? It's a hack. As a system administrator, I want package receipts - specifically bom files, to tell what is installed. I don't want to have to read post-xxx scripts to figure out what other stuff got installed. We'll NEVER have a working uninstall capability as long as developers use post-XXX scripts to install stuff. Your bom would mention the tar archive (which no longer exists on the target) and neglect to mention the bin tools (which now are on the target). No uninstaller could ever make sense of this. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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commandline Installer Creation doesn't honor Resources
by Christian Unger 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi, creating my installer with the following command: and the following PackageData Layout: PackageData: Resources: en.lproj: Background.jpg License.txt ReadMe.txt Scripts: postflight preflight FlatPackage Editor: what am I doing wrong? cu christian unger cu christian unger _______________________________________________ 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 /Developer/usr/bin/packagemaker --root /tmp/myProduct.dst --id de.company.myProduct --out /tmp/myProduct.pkg --version 12345 --title myProduct Deployment --discard-forks --target 10.5 --verbose -- scripts /PackageData/Scripts --resources /PackageData/Resources results in an installer which will run the specified scripts but doesn't show the Background, License nor the ReadMe, why?

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Re: Can Packagemaker create installer with content files outside the bundle?
by Rusty Myers 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

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Can Packagemaker create installer with content files outside the bundle?
by dan santucci 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

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Re: Installing command line tools
by Brent Burton 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

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:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uf6di7biwgNxc2NzydBhbmAXFsuwDeXOEGbnEL67oIQ=; b=s1Rm+oSdw5goGnCrXCrHY0uWno+1cGKN6VfjnjS8C1XmDXmOwR3QFACfE4EktxmEZA zMfUtu8TjBDKe2GxuHw+iNHo0MlBRStt1078m7nStJ8RwqQqYSa82pLoSsLu/Ut67EWR 23FUqhVjZP32LWikaT2FXeKpTLyZInWrAQLTY= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=QRb+vq2LQ+Tzvr/gSqE6prBS3LeF+ORegL0NXxlWLiB7f5nCnWW85eRVdkKSgDUvE6 z6uCkhEe8GPsWEeKJoS7bvIQFV7XePuBA2zCXpitQDcnSBP2T1fTrpDox07r0wIUL7Az +iQPATSCryrpzjfyL6Pzw1frDsoGLDHd6jDo4= Thanks for your numerous comments, Eli. You're right, our current approach works and has so far been an adequate workaround for the directory handling. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Eli Bach <ebach2(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ... > Just to follow up on this, PackageMaker seems to not really be deterministic > about this. > ... > left the "packagename-contents.xml" file within the .pmdoc virtually empty > ... I'll have to look into this next. -Brent _______________________________________________ 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: Installing command line tools
by Eli Bach 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

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:subject:mime-version:date :x-mailer; bh=eziHz3TP/D9wquW9osULnbO2lA41Muc5p6I1Kf7q4SM=; b=Sx1wrqW1GfeJaUy+xFZjlHDQahl0CakJ5hoxnU6aOIxkMD+N1pmzOobX2ar7NEawPo xm1slKf024tyzkJcWUkvyLvJlcAemiiq+2tc259TyvY/bF8jW6R0/+4u/vBSxpx45sYu Hfz4Im/Sc0U0/wFmBgQ1V+VqTqDAOi/pDQiJA= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:subject :mime-version:date:x-mailer; b=VStK5u8P3d8s/5jWT2NjcoDbTaRL8MeFS3XyyXPOG7XLxs1DsX0F8T3c8XWB4WR7Fb ekjKjEBNkK+oBZjJCF9xrBpA5UuMqXy5iRIi5CAT5/X1FanNdyVkzLZ0JgbCwz6H2EFj ou+wuyu7cBTt93urPFMbGSIfYS03U+zZb3AzQ= On Feb 3, 2009, at 11:56 PM, Eli Bach wrote: * Is there a way to Iceberg behavior out of PackageMaker w.r.t. a directory's contents? Eli _______________________________________________ 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.… Yeah, this behaviour annoys me as well (that you can't just tell it to grab everything in a folder when it builds, instead of just the files present when the folder is added to the package in PackageMaker). Offhand, I can only think of brute-forcing it in, as in, directly editing the plist's within the pmdoc (as it's just a folder of a couple of plists) Just to follow up on this, PackageMaker seems to not really be deterministic about this. I just checked my current installer, and PackageMaker left the "packagename-contents.xml" file within the .pmdoc virtually empty (it only has "<pkg-contents spec="1.12"/>"). However, now when I reopen the .pmdoc and switch to looking at the package contents, PackageMaker will update this file with the specific contents of the folder. It appears to only hold the listing of all the files, so you may be able to just keep it as the empty xml tag. For me, building the package from the command line, it seems to properly grab the contents of the folder. This may be the way to do it. But I've also noticed that PackageMaker will sometimes (not always) crash if I remove the file xml entries from it using a text editor and then opening the .pmdoc This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Installing command line tools
by Eli Bach 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

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 :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:subject :mime-version:date:references:x-mailer; bh=2QUKvtNtVxaqB+WM1Y5nm6tVMP/BeCPzEAAgKGSdKG8=; b=k8Jke7VL2QfixiqNt5sBAD/BoKQRaoqblh3kzolud4TF5/5NGzosrkND2L0jV+3Ut2 jTaO8NHovN9SHANPDydek1XKk4wtPl34HkWxha8gqv9WT25v7nFkufYiCBnfxJkspBCS QWPpWMx4JrHeZrDQpbg4V/dv667Of9jcbehM4= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:subject:mime-version:date:references :x-mailer; b=F3SLpr6oOoqcIUr37cW2aGU7zcvnfeCQ4uQm8t/6RS8LHihfHFVgRpIrTv1sricchy aEut0nIPRTqJ/SivCltDzcsQWaL4jRaNUfQckdPKua1hXoGVgFapK/MYL09EBiC/brRB sXts7036pcIseKzyEVHf+capHYttHxPG3GBeQ= Brent, On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Brent Burton wrote: So: * What is the best practice for installing command line tools into /usr/local/bin? * Is there a way to Iceberg behavior out of PackageMaker w.r.t. a directory's contents? Eli _______________________________________________ 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.… First, I would say, you've got a system that works, it seems to not be a big problem for your users, so unless you have a specific problem or new tool that requires some special handling, why change it? I think it's a tossup between using an installer or you can do what BBEdit does, in that the tools are bundled into the app, and when the app is launched, it checks the installed version of each tool, and if any are out of date (or not present), it asks the user if they want to install the tools, and then goes through Authorization Services to install the tools in /usr/bin (but /usr/local/bin is also OK). You could update this process to get the tools from an internal server via http or whatever instead of needing the user to get a new application if only the tools have changed. Yeah, this behaviour annoys me as well (that you can't just tell it to grab everything in a folder when it builds, instead of just the files present when the folder is added to the package in PackageMaker). Offhand, I can only think of brute-forcing it in, as in, directly editing the plist's within the pmdoc (as it's just a folder of a couple of plists) * How hacky is our current tar archive payload? Any problems doing this? It sounds like a good, straightforward workaround for how PackageMaker currently works. I believe it was, and may still be, the kind of thing you had to do to install files into the current user's folder (I recall it being standard practice to install into /tmp, then move the files to the user's folder in a postinstall script, but the current version of PackageMaker/Installer may no longer need to do this...) This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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