May 2009 - Installer-dev - lists.apple.com

command-line scripts
by Jeremy Matthews 05 May '09

05 May '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com anyone have an example of a basic command-line script? Thanks, j _______________________________________________ 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.… We've build a few under packagemaker 3.x...but we seem to get a valid package that installs nothing...and nothing notable to provide a description in the logs...here is a sample script: /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker --root ~/Desktop/Apps --id com.example.firefox --target 10.5 --title "Test Firefox" --install-to "/" --out ~/Desktop/ Firefox.pkg -v This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: File icon association with the application
by Eli Bach 04 May '09

04 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:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:subject :mime-version:date:references:x-mailer; bh=z6ej1btDPB59uf3gg2o7IXPhgmzJyW3yKNynAGGJfXs=; b=d6nL7o7LSxNY82zpAg6XY31hw8AnmZ51LcI3mHuAb5H0rpLFl9QEitOvLMsAxeeQWv pcHGpZfEdXgQtb45rBAwitPxkV660t2H9OPsRaBgaQ53AXza9fYmUhp7wCb8zj8sH733 a+O1OLkzVpGzFAkVHtJAFo/QH8WSjCEP1wtTI= 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=DpbLXh6EQu49tvjDNwiOlc8ihY34ttVZWx2EhsflR+1PP7xa/sB5MRm1EQxRiCXBCQ fluBwt69rG1PgHoYES/6YkMQmKqt2Egf16KphjKV/1FQyXr1Q5HMSyPqZjc6o4pUBycb UIo9CFJpfNHbq+/lTgaSe7MjPNseyjjKZgPRI= On May 4, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Francois Cournoyer wrote: I would suggest checking out: 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.… Anyone else have any ideas on what we should do at this point? /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister This tool lets you examine what is registered with launchservices, remove something from being registered with launchservices and register a specific application with launchservices. You should try deleting anything already registered with your signature/bundleid, and then adding your newly build/updated application to it and then see how it appears in the Finder. This lets you see what your app will look like on a computer that has never seen your computer before. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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RE: File icon association with the application
by Francois Cournoyer 04 May '09

04 May '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcnM/j5ok//1ntxPSAWj57JRZxYO6AAAcIVA Thread-topic: File icon association with the application That was one of my 1st ideas, though I looked at Quicktime's infoplist I'll try and look at the TextEdit one too just in case. -----Original Message----- From: Iceberg-Dev [mailto:dev.iceberg@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 5:21 PM To: Francois Cournoyer Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Re: File icon association with the application On May 4, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Francois Cournoyer wrote: > Anyone else have any ideas on what we should do at this point? It might be worth checking the TextEdit sample code in /Developer/ Examples/AppKit. Since this is a Cocoa document-based application and it deals with numerous file format, its Info.plist could be enlightening. Sometimes you need to logout and login for changes to be taken into account at this level. My $0.02 _______________________________________________ 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: File icon association with the application
by Iceberg-Dev 04 May '09

04 May '09

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Re: "Change Install Location" button
by Iceberg-Dev 04 May '09

04 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:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-priority:content-type:message-id:cc :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=WU8brtNz6gIgvjArC7HZTADcZsYhgQMAtBM/Gvv0vAQ=; b=NYffNPwZE0lpRw0UzkDSgSZ+vUsWUHP7TPnCwQp8DOoOqU0EjEag/TiOVZAUuGGbb7 egPXXmyLALFPi+oFtgkm3oKeJ5BEp4I6DQSqthjhnOu/38cmRUWpVRe3EPJe3Eei4xpk MNK11NdbkOnqW5ZY2HbQO72yY2Qudaoas9mw0= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:x-priority:content-type :message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to :x-mailer; b=wG/IqpGbG6TI9G87V5Qe7eUy/5co/SbiSZf34toiD3SUngz+ORuuthzQ3rCxFJ8Xrt xBVCg/9G3q21jR6xt2tdjaEn3U4D7rsQcS+QM3ae6xolJBhUzuRy9Md11R8kzYHfcZ8F xEzRFEMuzySIln6/lVRdDJrUXKSi2UWTn/sus= On May 2, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Andrew Peckover wrote: This is a known bug in Installer.app. _______________________________________________ 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.… Does anybody know if there's a way to prevent the [Change Install Location] button from showing up in the Installation Type screen? I have "Easy and Custom" selected, and have checked only "system volume". In the Custom Install window, people can choose the location and volume for some packages, but other packages are always installed to the system volume in a specific location. It is confusing that the Change Install Location button is there. One approach would be to only allow Custom Install, however I want to encourage the typical (beginner) user to not edit the destination folders, so I'd like the Easy Install to happen. Strangely, for some reason sometimes the button *doesn't* show up which is what I want, but usually it does show up. i.e. if I install the same package twice in a row, the button might be there the first time but not the second. (OS 10.5.6 version 3.0.3) This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Prevent receipts from getting written??
by Andrew Peckover 04 May '09

04 May '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thanks. No, all the packages had different identifiers. Andrew On May 2, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Andrew Peckover wrote: Erasing receipts is a big no-no. -- Karl Kuehn larkost(a)softhome.net _______________________________________________ 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.… The problem is they have the same package name because they install to the same name folder, but I have solved this by changing my source folder names and unchecking "include root". After working around some additional quirks, finally got it working the way I want. Packages must have both different identifiers AND different package names. Would be nice if you could actually specify what your package should be called. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Kuehn" <kuehn.karl(a)gmail.com> To: "Andrew Peckover" <apeckover(a)pgmusic.com> Cc: <installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 12:49 PM Subject: Re: Prevent receipts from getting written?? I have a number of installers that install files to the same folder. The problem is, each install I do DELETES all of the files installed by the previous installer!! I think this is because they all install files to the same folder. I can't change that part of it. If I delete the receipt from the previous install, the problem doesn't occur. So, can I prevent receipts from being created at all? I can't believe that an installer would automatically delete files from a user's computer, with no option to prevent it... My guess is that all of these installers have the same "Package Identifier". I got stung with this when a couple of packages (in different mpg's) had the same identifier. It though that one was an upgrade of the other, and so cleaned out the "old" files for me. If you use full reverse-dns names for each package, and make sure that you can never have name collisions, that should take care of that problem for you. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Prevent receipts from getting written??
by Iceberg-Dev 04 May '09

04 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:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-priority:content-type:message-id:cc :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=6iYvfaGkAO79UtlxHeYyNnVDOaE6cMnLAn23B5sODMs=; b=TFTh9k2xhwjyDpvdieOZzj+mJ9b4AkBXoA12q8BspdcHfFT120axF85FhM77AyVC99 kfH1F6omR2odNR3wK5oeCnRh1t8ctNBED8xJXSS4P3c+fmWwGF1p6tm2mGWJh76scXXr wMMIGRREt9Rixdlohe7737lyY1xQeR9WPRWmw= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:x-priority:content-type :message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to :x-mailer; b=f9Yvj5ydEc4xLCyXfojt4m+M2xTBE2Il1lPI9me1n5Aws+0XVGKpBDNi2/WmOTFKJT 6er1W6ncDLTeprszm8r56Zdi2bN94k2RPVXm5mnerRbxx4dvgMfvTn00h7rIS4ppVauy Wq3QoZ5AI/B3sTP4jbPNMuM2DbjG2Ha/vHUns= On May 3, 2009, at 3:41 AM, Andrew Peckover wrote: Hi, _______________________________________________ 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 have a number of installers that install files to the same folder. The problem is, each install I do DELETES all of the files installed by the previous installer!! I think this is because they all install files to the same folder. I can't change that part of it. If I delete the receipt from the previous install, the problem doesn't occur. So, can I prevent receipts from being created at all? I can't believe that an installer would automatically delete files from a user's computer, with no option to prevent it... Well, it would if it thought that this was the same package you're installing and some files had been obsoleted. This will happen for instance if you use the same bundle identifier for all your packages. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Deleting and creating new alias in PackageMaker
by Iceberg-Dev 04 May '09

04 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:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding :from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=OQmzMSK8FTOX/5YHge04292XnFITBe4sECKitovFWMs=; b=WKfdlYxU3Wfg984bmIk5JfI2wqVjx7X55JETsI0JbRfkiMxIZvMMrHC12LkN52v6mg NnAMVlA0g0G/9QHxZjrMJ6mWEf1h9VqnXChg1iTCFTSIg/it+jq2HjU228qYylLT7QHV h8gQ5+1jDHN2XdQOC3zcLjDeRpCj0EyYBBnn8= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=idFFUs6SH8tlJqh/ZejKDkwnq15R2ReP+v2AmMQiG1i5c99jyR11yajK04du2d1Qq3 lo9RfhdJwc9N+t2GPjkVRW+MLpEpOkc2Z/okg9vkzVJs34CNVkwncZYDh0QcmQWosGU6 wE7lz/1P60bAmha/wxtN3BnZvxxKeRIzPt7gw= On May 1, 2009, at 4:53 PM, kmcnair(a)lingraphica.com wrote: if [ -e "Users/client/Desktop/Run_ProgramName" ] ; then rm "Users/client/Desktop/Run_ProgramName" fi cd ~/Desktop I've used variations of these lines in postflight (mostly just removing quotes, underscores, and escaping spaces hoping that something would work): osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"' -e 'make new alias to POSIX file "/Users/client/ProgramFileName/ProgramName.app" at desktop' -e 'end tell' mv ProgramName "Run_ProgramName" What I would try in this case is to print in the log or in the console, the path you use during the execution of the script. It could be this is not the one you expect. It seems like I can create the new alias but the old one is not deleted and the new one doesn't stick. It appears for a second then disappears. The prompter of this issue was that Tiger aliases retain their original location and Leopard aliases do not. I rename the old path to Users/client/PreviousProgramName and the alias follows, whereas in Leopard, the alias is hard coded to the original path Users/client/ProgramName. An alias that is hard coded to the original path sounds more like a symbolic link. _______________________________________________ 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: "Allow Relocation" Bugs
by Iceberg-Dev 04 May '09

04 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:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding :from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=Kbu4XhGHBcMJqiwPrXvuPVmAAA8DupxHRu2muTl3vjE=; b=raDymAu58dq1YZgphL5TvzgCh9+aGbQQAYMfjmkFkCqwjw7far4+y5pK+HM0DCttMB q+ZpOEX/EmZa2e+dcwd3MhICFlMm3OsZ0n7nvPWnXF7wJfNEfa5hSxAi287df1vyorHW ooFCeXg0eMLPBmsT3qaeY3jIBAfbOImw6AMNA= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=go0Pxjx9LhcM2/wGdSvc7hnowQc5V8zSx5339dbMtFRBVsLQRuYyiAkHqWEpWGz2H+ k20T4l7pGsePdfyTZZ8ol4WvdFd3ZlpXJ9w1u5fqIfabmneFa0ZLuS9H4VEOy+EZ9RPK 4T2ohSDKRUWOgwpuiARl6eRPzDBVJKw8BJ44Y= On May 1, 2009, at 10:26 AM, sandeep chaudhary wrote: Hi All, Which version of PackageMaker 3.x are you using? IIRC, this is one of the known issues. _______________________________________________ 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 working on PackageMaker and build a installer which will install some applications to user specified location. I am using the command line utility to build and run the package from package maker. But i am facing a problem with this. When i open the .pmdoc file, i found the "relocatable" check box is checked every time. So i have to uncheck all checkboxes , save .pmdoc file and run command to build the package every time. I want to turned off all checkboxes by default when i open the .pmdoc file. So that there is no need to uncheck all check boxes manually and resave the .pmdoc file .How can i solve this problem. Any help is much appriciated This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Prevent receipts from getting written??
by Karl Kuehn 04 May '09

04 May '09

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