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Re: How to create an installer for GarageBand instrument packs ?
by Karl Kuehn 19 May '09

19 May '09

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Re: Installer documentation starting points
by Bill Coderre 19 May '09

19 May '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com (b) "bundle-style" format after the rehab (10.2-10.3) On May 19, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: I would tend to think there are 4 because there are 2 versions of the "bundle-style" package: (a) crazy "bundle-style" format (10.0-10.1). The first format was crazy because for instance changing the name of the package bundle would break the installation, there was no Info.plist but an old Unixish key attribute text file, etc. True. The early, early, 10.0-style bundle installer packages are deprecated and no longer work. I advise not learning about them. _______________________________________________ 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 create an installer for GarageBand instrument packs ?
by Christian Unger 19 May '09

19 May '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com I think you have to register your instrument pack /Library/Application\ Support/GarageBand/Package\ Registry.plist On 19.05.2009, at 19:43, Sandro Bilbeisi wrote: Hi all How to create an installer for GarageBand instrument packs ? I understand the basic PackageMaker process I want my users to be able to select the instrument set by using the pulldown menu in GarageBand's instrument browser pane. _______________________________________________ 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/christian.unger%40me.c… _______________________________________________ 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.… however , I don't see how I can create the definition for the instrument sets i.e. 'Jam Pack 1" , "Jam Pack Symphony Orchestra" This email sent to christian.unger(a)me.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Cached distribution contents in PM 3?
by Iceberg-Dev 19 May '09

19 May '09

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Re: Installer documentation starting points
by Iceberg-Dev 19 May '09

19 May '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:mime-version:in-reply-to :references:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from :subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=Cu/yv2ItmS4bK6Y0GzyVCuulIBD6GOKMpxWZpkOpoiY=; b=VifmM/b/Aa0LicrSZaGMsv45VTMMFguWhrLmnOzv4fOmCdDMJ5jQbKeY56dfxThscz tkcmafgznnBF821FSPhAN/Yw4Zm4u2EnhTiiogw5TSWiBjET2fPSMakFZzkK9PxkSu76 YO7zSWRwxG8tdLVq3S+SAykotXNkjiykqPqgQ= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:content-type:message-id :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=h5MidSdDQM+Cd51nre/fvQJARoRJ3oj9J15d9jJDDLKLndUdRjPM/It9Jvd30IsZQH ogZUvq3GHoubb9YPArw9kzozWA0Zh7C8CbNjktGCuUm9yA+xoNxldkwRU1nInJxqe+7S N/av1WH9KoHXNreOp7ahyUiItQ972k6+54q+s= On May 19, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Bill Coderre wrote: (a) crazy "bundle-style" format (10.0-10.1). (b) "bundle-style" format after the rehab (10.2-10.3) _______________________________________________ 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.… On May 19, 2009, at 4:01 AM, soubhagya ranjan nayak wrote: I am new to Mac and creating installation packages as well. Inside every package directory, there is an info.plist file. I think the contents of the info.plist file is used by the installer application during installation. So we can change the behavior of an installation by manipulating the info.plist file. Please correct me if I am wrong. I want to get the documentation of the info.plist file to know the significance of each entry and what entries are allowed. It would be of great help. A hint to put things in perspective: Mac OS X Installer is a special app that lives on the user's hard drive. In general, it gets enhancements at major releases (Cheetah, Puma, Panther, Tiger, Leopard) and bug fixes in between. There have been three major versions of the way install packages work: • Original, "bundle-style" packages (10.0 through 10.3) • "Distribution script" based packages (10.4) • "Flat" packages (10.5) I would tend to think there are 4 because there are 2 versions of the "bundle-style" package: The first format was crazy because for instance changing the name of the package bundle would break the installation, there was no Info.plist but an old Unixish key attribute text file, etc. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Installer documentation starting points
by Bill Coderre 19 May '09

19 May '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com FURTHER DOCUMENTATION Here are some documents you should read, at Apple's Developer site: Software Delivery Guide: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/Software… Package Maker User Guide: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/PackageM… Installer JavaScript Reference: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/Installer… "Distribution" definition reference (for Leopard and later packages): http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/Distribut… _______________________________________________ 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.… On May 19, 2009, at 4:01 AM, soubhagya ranjan nayak wrote: I am new to Mac and creating installation packages as well. Inside every package directory, there is an info.plist file. I think the contents of the info.plist file is used by the installer application during installation. So we can change the behavior of an installation by manipulating the info.plist file. Please correct me if I am wrong. I want to get the documentation of the info.plist file to know the significance of each entry and what entries are allowed. It would be of great help. A hint to put things in perspective: Mac OS X Installer is a special app that lives on the user's hard drive. In general, it gets enhancements at major releases (Cheetah, Puma, Panther, Tiger, Leopard) and bug fixes in between. There have been three major versions of the way install packages work: • Original, "bundle-style" packages (10.0 through 10.3) • "Distribution script" based packages (10.4) • "Flat" packages (10.5) Older format packages are intended to keep on installing in newer OS versions. I think that pretty much any package authored to match the 10.1 (Puma) release SHOULD still work correctly. Apple does not absolutely guarantee this, but tries hard to maintain compatibility. After all, many users have expensive software on read-only media. Breaking those installers would be bad. HOWEVER, newer formats have more features and bug fixes than older ones. "Distribution" packages launch more quickly than "bundle" packages, and "flat" packages can be digitally signed, making them tamper-resistant. In general, if your software only works on 10.5.x, you should probably use a 10.5-style "flat" package to install. To answer your question: you are mostly correct, the installer flags/ fields often control the behavior of the installer. In newer package formats, some of the entries are superseded/ignored. Also, some of them are "private" to Apple. They are intentionally undocumented for a bunch of reasons, and Apple would like you not to use them: • Some are only useful in Apple's Software Update setting, or are remnants of Apple's internal build process. • Some are deprecated, broken, ignored, etc. • Some are not fully tested, and might not always work as you think, or they might change their behavior in later OS versions. Stéphane Sudre has a very useful collection of info: http://s.sudre.free.fr/Packaging.html He does document some of the flags that Apple considers private. Please don't use private entries/flags. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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How to create an installer for GarageBand instrument packs ?
by Sandro Bilbeisi 19 May '09

19 May '09

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Re: Options for creating a pkg or mpkg
by Greg Neagle 19 May '09

19 May '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com -Greg On May 19, 2009, at 3:49 AM, soubhagya ranjan nayak 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.… 4. Iceberg - http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Iceberg.html 5. LANrev InstallEase - http://www.lanrev.com/nc/product/download-installease.html . Limited to simple packages. 6. Casper Composer - http://www.jamfsoftware.com/products/ composer.php Limited to simple packages. Hi Everybody, I am new to Mac and creating installation packages as well. As far as I know, I can create a package or a meta-package by the following 3 ways. 1:- Using the PackageMaker GUI. 2:- Using the packagemaker command. 3:- Using shell-script and manipulating the directory structure. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Details of Info.plist file in a package.
by soubhagya ranjan nayak 19 May '09

19 May '09

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Options for creating a pkg or mpkg
by soubhagya ranjan nayak 19 May '09

19 May '09

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