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

Custom "Welcome" Message?
by Alexander von Below 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello, is it possible to modify the "Welcome to the fooBar Installer" message? Any hints are appreciated. Alex _______________________________________________ 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 want the Tilte of the window to display a slightly different name than in the Welcome message on the "Introduction" screen. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Installation progress messages
by Kevin Brock 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) The key "IFPkgDescriptionTitle" is displayed by the installer. Kevin I'd really appreciate any suggestions on this. Kevin _______________________________________________ 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/bc%40apple.com _______________________________________________ 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.… Bill Coderre wrote: For bundle packages, and flat distribution archives, inside each package is a bunch of language lprojs, and in there is a file called Description.plist. Thanks. I'll see if I can get this to do what I need. I haven't taken apart and reassembled flat packages before, so I may have more issues along the way :-) On Jul 17, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Kevin Brock wrote: I'm looking for ways to customize the installation progress messages--the "Installing xxx" messages that show up during actual package installation. The default is to use the last part of the package identifier. This isn't always what we want, and it'd be great if we could change the whole message in some cases. For example we have a scripts-only target which should probably say something like "Preparing for installation", rather than "Installing pre-install" I didn't run across anything in the official documents, but then that's often the case, even for things which are doable. This email sent to bc(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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RE: Installation progress messages
by William Smith 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcoHGmY9sNzsbd1LT0u1Vtq6p/3ZxAABCp7A Thread-topic: Installation progress messages Bill, Does this apply to the 10.5 Flat Package Format? We have been trying to modify this string for some time and have no success so far. Thanks, William -----Original Message----- From: installer-dev-bounces+william.smith=radialpoint.com(a)lists.apple.com [mailto:installer-dev-bounces+william.smith=radialpoint.com@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of Bill Coderre Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 4:09 PM To: Kevin Brock Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Installation progress messages For bundle packages, and flat distribution archives, inside each package is a bunch of language lprojs, and in there is a file called Description.plist. The key "IFPkgDescriptionTitle" is displayed by the installer. On Jul 17, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Kevin Brock wrote: > I'm looking for ways to customize the installation progress > messages--the "Installing xxx" messages that show up during actual > package installation. > > The default is to use the last part of the package identifier. This > isn't always what we want, and it'd be great if we could change the > whole message in some cases. For example we have a scripts-only > target which should probably say something like "Preparing for > installation", rather than "Installing pre-install" > > I didn't run across anything in the official documents, but then > that's often the case, even for things which are doable. > > I'd really appreciate any suggestions on this. > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > 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/bc%40apple.com > > This email sent to bc(a)apple.com _______________________________________________ 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/william.smith%40radial… This email sent to william.smith(a)radialpoint.com *********************************************************************** This e-mail and its attachments are confidential, legally privileged, may be subject to copyright and sent solely for the attention of the addressee(s). Any unauthorized use or disclosure is prohibited. Statements and opinions expressed in this e-mail may not represent those of Radialpoint. Le contenu de ce courriel est confidentiel, privilégié et peut être soumis à des droits d'auteur. Il est envoyé à l'intention exclusive de son ou de ses destinataires. Il est interdit de l'utiliser ou de le divulguer sans autorisation. Les opinions exprimées dans le présent courriel peuvent diverger de celles de Radialpoint. *********************************************************************** This e-mail and its attachments are confidential, legally privileged, may be subject to copyright and sent solely for the attention of the addressee(s). Any unauthorized use or disclosure is prohibited. Statements and opinions expressed in this e-mail may not represent those of Radialpoint. Le contenu de ce courriel est confidentiel, privilégié et peut être soumis à des droits d'auteur. Il est envoyé à l'intention exclusive de son ou de ses destinataires. Il est interdit de l'utiliser ou de le divulguer sans autorisation. Les opinions exprimées dans le présent courriel peuvent diverger de celles de Radialpoint. _______________________________________________ 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: Installation progress messages
by Bill Coderre 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com The key "IFPkgDescriptionTitle" is displayed by the installer. I'd really appreciate any suggestions on this. Kevin _______________________________________________ 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/bc%40apple.com _______________________________________________ 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.… For bundle packages, and flat distribution archives, inside each package is a bunch of language lprojs, and in there is a file called Description.plist. On Jul 17, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Kevin Brock wrote: I'm looking for ways to customize the installation progress messages--the "Installing xxx" messages that show up during actual package installation. The default is to use the last part of the package identifier. This isn't always what we want, and it'd be great if we could change the whole message in some cases. For example we have a scripts-only target which should probably say something like "Preparing for installation", rather than "Installing pre-install" I didn't run across anything in the official documents, but then that's often the case, even for things which are doable. This email sent to bc(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Installation progress messages
by Kevin Brock 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) I'd really appreciate any suggestions on this. Kevin _______________________________________________ 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'm looking for ways to customize the installation progress messages--the "Installing xxx" messages that show up during actual package installation. The default is to use the last part of the package identifier. This isn't always what we want, and it'd be great if we could change the whole message in some cases. For example we have a scripts-only target which should probably say something like "Preparing for installation", rather than "Installing pre-install" I didn't run across anything in the official documents, but then that's often the case, even for things which are doable. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Snow Leopard, uninstallation procedure; HowTo ...
by Scott Russell 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

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Re: Snow Leopard, uninstallation procedure; HowTo ...
by Eli Bach 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '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:from:to:in-reply-to:subject :x-priority:references:message-id:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:date:x-mailer; bh=oszD0liOll7SX1+eI9O92Tu4y8b1dZpss0u4dCSyqck=; b=FbiUqTACc8hpa+lVi6WQ2DaS4IQEgXuiTyptZPTdMXcKptupxbtDh2q3tokvvMQ+vc UstiZFHtTz6eUvzeTFdpgixwe6kozYWIL3uuyusyx5UOeoJbT5IZAYu1R0qvvY/zdUl1 Jfj9FapsWe6QAB0LN7oQ9xXwLxULjRh5IwfLw= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:in-reply-to:subject:x-priority:references:message-id :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:date:x-mailer; b=f8s8BKvDlb9bvb6R4WjyPq8n4XBe3mbD6niC53M3v/6vlDEa66C4JtDYgwaqVT0+o5 u4TQzjTE3vGw1ci8L8eCuVMIYEy7N/31U14sj4aigwLb5qLBH85DTZTDZ4LjGSbzT7Ta mSWh7ia2x+NwH8G2pEzj4HXX/cmD1GGjmqEtA= On Jul 15, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Alexander Klyuev wrote: 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.… Snow Leopard Um, you aren't allowed to discus Snow Leopard features on public mailing lists. On Leopard, there is /Library/Receipts/db/a.receiptdb, which you may want to google for information about, or search Apple's developer tool help for, as I believe there is a cli tool for removing info from this database which holds info about installed files. Snow Leopard may work in a similar fashion (which is speculation for me, as I don't have it). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Snow Leopard, uninstallation procedure; HowTo ...
by Alexander Klyuev 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Organization: MusicLab, inc. Hi ALL, Snow Leopard documentation regarding Installer has not given any idea. Does anybody have an idea how to force Installer to forget my application? I'll appreciate any idea, - Alexander _______________________________________________ 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.… To uninstall an application from Tiger, Leopard I usually remove app's folders, other specific files if any and a copy of app installation package from "/Library/Receipts" folder. It allows Installer to INSTALL same application once again (preinstall & postinstall scripts are running). So Installer chooses INSTALL, not UPGRADE procedure. On Snow Leopard I cannot force Installer to forget previous installation of an app. I've found a file "/Library/Receipts/InstallHistory.plist" and even removed dictionary that contains info regarding my app previous installation (it seems to be used on Snow Leopard instead of bunch of installation packages in Receipts folder on previous versions of MacOS X). Removal of mentioned record (dict) about my installation package from InstallHistory.plist has not led to desired result. So every time I run installation package Installer chooses UPGRADE instead of INSTALL. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Query for package id
by Charles E. Heizer 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcoFnqx+MD9ZA7woShqsXHz/gXF8Lg== Thread-topic: Query for package id Hi Greg, Thanks, I had a feeling that was the answer :-( Charles On Jul 15, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Greg Neagle wrote: > In Leopard, pkgutil doesn't have info on all installed packages; it > tracks only the new Leopard flat packages. > What you have to do is first check pkgutil: > > pkgutil --pkg-info <pkgid> > > If that turns up nothing, you'll need to loop through all the receipts > in /Library/Receipts and examine the Info.plist files: > > /Library/Receipts/PackageName.pkg/Contents/Info.plist > > From the Info.plist, you'll need to look at CFBundleIdentifier and > CFBundleShortVersionString. > Some packages also have a version.plist at /Library/Receipts/ > PackageName.pkg/Contents/version.plist, which has additional version > info. > > There's some Python code to do all of this in munki -- http://*code.google.com/p/munki > > -Greg > > > On Jul 15, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Charles E. Heizer wrote: > >> Hello, >> I'm looking at creating a script to see if a package has been >> installed. So I have been looking through the man pages on pkgutil >> and >> installer and I dont see a logical way to join the two. >> >> If I run "installer -pkginfo -verbose" on a pkg I get some useful >> information but no package identifiers or package identifier version. >> So what is the best approach to query pkgutil for a package if you >> dont have a package identifier? >> >> thanks, >> Charles > > _______________________________________________ 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: Query for package id
by Greg Neagle 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com pkgutil --pkg-info <pkgid> /Library/Receipts/PackageName.pkg/Contents/Info.plist There's some Python code to do all of this in munki -- http://code.google.com/p/munki -Greg On Jul 15, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Charles E. Heizer wrote: Hello, I'm looking at creating a script to see if a package has been installed. So I have been looking through the man pages on pkgutil and installer and I dont see a logical way to join the two. If I run "installer -pkginfo -verbose" on a pkg I get some useful information but no package identifiers or package identifier version. So what is the best approach to query pkgutil for a package if you dont have a package identifier? thanks, Charles _______________________________________________ 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.… In Leopard, pkgutil doesn't have info on all installed packages; it tracks only the new Leopard flat packages. What you have to do is first check pkgutil: If that turns up nothing, you'll need to loop through all the receipts in /Library/Receipts and examine the Info.plist files: >From the Info.plist, you'll need to look at CFBundleIdentifier and CFBundleShortVersionString. Some packages also have a version.plist at /Library/Receipts/ PackageName.pkg/Contents/version.plist, which has additional version info. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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