August 2009 - Installer-dev

API For the install target device's Model Number
by Freeman, Andrei 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

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Re: How to give a PackageMaker installer a custom desktop icon?
by Karl Kuehn 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Tony Zepeda wrote: Can I give a PackageMaker installer a different icon so on the desktop it appears with a custom icon instead of the generic icon used by all PackageMaker installers? You can do it the same way you can for any file. Just "Get Info" on the file and the click on the icon in that box and paste your artwork onto it. If you are using the older package format (as opposed to a 10.5 "flat package") then there are other tricks you can use (probably not worth it). I don't personally think that this is a great idea, but I can see how marketing would feel it is. And I do want to make a slight correction in something implied in your email: PackageMaker does not produce executables, it is not like VISE. PackageMaker produces a .pkg document. It is the installer program that then runs and interprets this document. Your email seemed to imply that the .pkg was actually an installer (program). _______________________________________________ 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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How to give a PackageMaker installer a custom desktop icon?
by tony_zepeda＠filemaker.com 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thanks, - tz _______________________________________________ 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.… Can I give a PackageMaker installer a different icon so on the desktop it appears with a custom icon instead of the generic icon used by all PackageMaker installers? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: icons not showing up?
by Howard Moon 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Aug 12, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Howard Moon wrote: Thanks, -Howard _______________________________________________ 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've finally got my PackageMaker-built installer working, but there's one issue remaining: the executables (an app and a plug- in) are not showing their icons. When doing a VISE-X install, they show up, but not after doing a package install. Anyone know how to tell why not, or how to force Finder to show them? Looking in Terminal, I can see a file whose name is listed as "Icon?" in both my source files and in the final install, but *something* must be different between the two, since the source files show their icon (as does the VISE-X installed version), but the package- installed versions don't. Any thoughts? Thanks for all the help so far! Is the root item of your package payload the application itself and the default target location /Applications? And is the application's icon not set through a bundle but through a Resource Fork? If the answer is yes to both, then it's a known bug in PackageMaker, splitforks and Installer.app (pick one of the three depending on the OS version). A workaround is to use / as the default location and have the Applications/MyApp path be part of your payload. I don't see any "default location", but there is a Destination field for the Choice. When I set that to empty or to /, and set the Destination field of each of the Packages (inside the Choice) to the folder path (/Applications/mycompany/mydir/), then I get warnings for all my packages that says: User ID 501 does not match 0 of root volume for "/Applications/ mycompany/mydir/myfile". Make sure to have disk permissions repaired with Disk Utility. I'm not even going to *try* running the installer with warnings like that! :-) Well, I did try running the installer, even with those warnings, but no luck. Still no custom icons visible. If I manually copy the file from my 10.5 development partition to my 10.6 test partition, the icon shows up perfectly. But not when it's installed via the package. Another oddity... whenever I go to delete the installed files, I get asked for my password. The permissions look the same to me, so what the heck? The exact same files installed via my VISE-X installer (or simply copied over) do not require a password to delete. The "mode" on the executable files (bundles) that I install all say "drwxrwxr- x". My 10.6 OS was installed while importing my settings from my 10.5 OS, so I should have the same permissions, and looking at the files in Terminal, using "ls -a -l", they look exactly the same, with "Howard" as the owner and "admin" as the group. So what gives? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Packaging KEXT for Distribution and Installation
by Shraddha Karwan 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

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How to get Choice Requirements to work when there is subchoices.
by Andrew Peckover 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com I'm trying to work around what is likely a bug. Thanks, Andrew _______________________________________________ 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 It appears that choice requirements don't work when there are subchoices. Maybe I'm not using the correct term "subchoices" - have attached a picture of what I mean - this is setup using raw editing mode, since it can't be done in the user interface (as far as I know). By examining the distribution script in raw editing mode, I can see what is happening... when there are subchoices, the requirement's function goes missing, even when added in raw editing mode. The function call is still there in the choice line (i.e. start selected="pm_choice1_selected()", the Function pm_choice1...." is done. -- Anyways.... perhaps there is another way to do what I am trying to do: I have 10 packages, each of which need to be installed only if a certain file exists. The file is different for each of the 10 packages. In addition, the user can choose a custom folder to install to, but each package should be installed to the same custom folder. This is why I use subchoices, so in the Custom Install dialog, the user only has to choose the custom location once, and all of the sub-items will then install to that location. I don't want the user having to choose the same folder for each of the 10 packages, otherwise I wouldn't have a problem, since the requirements work if there aren't subchoices. If anyone can make sense of this, let me know if you can think of a different way to accomplish what I am trying to do. choices.png

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Re: icons not showing up?
by Howard Moon 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com -Howard _______________________________________________ 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've finally got my PackageMaker-built installer working, but there's one issue remaining: the executables (an app and a plug-in) are not showing their icons. When doing a VISE-X install, they show up, but not after doing a package install. Anyone know how to tell why not, or how to force Finder to show them? Looking in Terminal, I can see a file whose name is listed as "Icon?" in both my source files and in the final install, but *something* must be different between the two, since the source files show their icon (as does the VISE-X installed version), but the package-installed versions don't. Any thoughts? Thanks for all the help so far! Is the root item of your package payload the application itself and the default target location /Applications? And is the application's icon not set through a bundle but through a Resource Fork? If the answer is yes to both, then it's a known bug in PackageMaker, splitforks and Installer.app (pick one of the three depending on the OS version). A workaround is to use / as the default location and have the Applications/MyApp path be part of your payload. I don't see any "default location", but there is a Destination field for the Choice. When I set that to empty or to /, and set the Destination field of each of the Packages (inside the Choice) to the folder path (/Applications/mycompany/mydir/), then I get warnings for all my packages that says: User ID 501 does not match 0 of root volume for "/Applications/ mycompany/mydir/myfile". Make sure to have disk permissions repaired with Disk Utility. I'm not even going to *try* running the installer with warnings like that! :-) This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Packagemaker crash
by Paul Walmsley 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Postbox 1.0b14 (Windows/2009072715) In the end the basic form of the command line that worked was this: Paul On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Nathan Herring wrote: 2009-08-11 20:27:55.125 packagemaker[840:10b] Setting to : 0 (null) 2009-08-11 20:27:55.128 packagemaker[840:10b] Setting to : 0 com.jigsawlearning.teachtown.pkg 2009-08-11 20:27:55.147 packagemaker[840:10b] Setting to : 0 com.jigsawlearning.teachtown.pkg 2009-08-11 20:27:55.149 packagemaker[840:10b] relocate: (null) 0 2009-08-11 20:27:55.150 packagemaker[840:10b] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSXMLDocument initWithXMLString:options:error:]: nil argument' 2009-08-11 20:27:55.150 packagemaker[840:10b] Stack: ( 2474242027, 2528251451, 2474241483, 2474241546, 2445820292, 453371, 447720, 436209, 435510, 9986, 9918 ) Trace/BPT trap Welcome to packagemaker cli. 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/spam%40pjwhams.co.uk _______________________________________________ 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 had a variety of problems for a long time when I tries to use the CLI for PackageMaker. What's the actual command you use? I found it was *incredibly* sensitive to the arguments you used, and if it wasn't happy it would just crash, rather than giving you any kind of sensible warning. I found that if the input (pmdoc) and output (pkg) names were different then it wasn't happy. It will also crash if you omit the -i parameter. I found that one of our scripts had '-p blah.pkg' rather than '-o blah.pkg' which maybe was a relic from previous versions. There were also cases where the pmdoc file preserved some filenames as absolute rather then relative so that the build failed when it was performed on a different machine. /Developer/usr/bin/packagemaker -v --doc blah.pmdoc -o blah.pkg -i com.company.blah Filed as radar:// 6678946 <https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/89/wo/W2yWJmWce…> Eli Bach wrote: While trying to use the commandline version of packagemaker with a premade .pmdoc file, I get the following in the terminal: I've attached the crash report. It works fine building the package within the UI. >From what I can tell, EVERYBODY gets this crash when they first try to use the cli tool. It seems the tool has seen remarkably little testing within Apple, or else this crash is considered a right of passage... Anyway, you can google for 'packagemaker cli crash', and see a whole bunch of reports on this thing. Most likely, you can get past this specific problem by adding '--id yourpackageidentifier' to the options passed to the tool. Yes, even though you've already typed it in within the GUI. I suppose the tool just barely works so as to encourage you to not use it unless you REALLY have to (ie, switch to a drag install, or to write your own installer [which if you do, you can add uninstall while your at it]). This email sent to spam(a)pjwhams.co.uk This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Packagemaker crash
by Eli Bach 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '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=x2f5J9xk7d+DTWPBipZhDpO/++vTeMFHE2F7Nv24hAA=; b=IyvMicnFfO90y0Bc/ue3gcAkhxzE2geQx3wPzK4+V1tF1Ip81+mA6zkswFVVwBKfST 7wDu/zea0JMs/0n2AwJXfXrbDlUU13aM9uO4L/4WuZLETp7/4WrnalDqpAPg+BDsP4dc +qZJh8F0OWnPRQwLZY1Blw13w0CMYx8PHVLd0= 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=FkvgNwuAgKixOIOtvDzG2ajQ5iRu3iBIvFl+rJkqsXLwOchplXQ0IuPnfn+CT3kW2l /J+beIIsvLpDlYbJA7Hv5zgJnC9mO8MxwJtx+KKl0zVjNVmmNIn1I+olDd891DbTtALR kpx3LcTfbAQ1M7AjU0w8VOwAaL4eCLOralX5Q= On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Nathan Herring wrote: Welcome to packagemaker cli. 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.… While trying to use the commandline version of packagemaker with a premade .pmdoc file, I get the following in the terminal: 2009-08-11 20:27:55.125 packagemaker[840:10b] Setting to : 0 (null) 2009-08-11 20:27:55.128 packagemaker[840:10b] Setting to : 0 com.jigsawlearning.teachtown.pkg 2009-08-11 20:27:55.147 packagemaker[840:10b] Setting to : 0 com.jigsawlearning.teachtown.pkg 2009-08-11 20:27:55.149 packagemaker[840:10b] relocate: (null) 0 2009-08-11 20:27:55.150 packagemaker[840:10b] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSXMLDocument initWithXMLString:options:error:]: nil argument' 2009-08-11 20:27:55.150 packagemaker[840:10b] Stack: ( 2474242027, 2528251451, 2474241483, 2474241546, 2445820292, 453371, 447720, 436209, 435510, 9986, 9918 ) Trace/BPT trap I've attached the crash report. It works fine building the package within the UI. >From what I can tell, EVERYBODY gets this crash when they first try to use the cli tool. It seems the tool has seen remarkably little testing within Apple, or else this crash is considered a right of passage... Anyway, you can google for 'packagemaker cli crash', and see a whole bunch of reports on this thing. Most likely, you can get past this specific problem by adding '--id yourpackageidentifier' to the options passed to the tool. Yes, even though you've already typed it in within the GUI. I suppose the tool just barely works so as to encourage you to not use it unless you REALLY have to (ie, switch to a drag install, or to write your own installer [which if you do, you can add uninstall while your at it]). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Packagemaker crash
by Nathan Herring 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Acoa/cPyag1z523tFkmumn008wQuhw== Thread-topic: Packagemaker crash User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.20.0.090605 While trying to use the commandline version of packagemaker with a premade .pmdoc file, I get the following in the terminal: 2009-08-11 20:27:55.125 packagemaker[840:10b] Setting to : 0 (null) 2009-08-11 20:27:55.128 packagemaker[840:10b] Setting to : 0 com.jigsawlearning.teachtown.pkg 2009-08-11 20:27:55.147 packagemaker[840:10b] Setting to : 0 com.jigsawlearning.teachtown.pkg 2009-08-11 20:27:55.149 packagemaker[840:10b] relocate: (null) 0 2009-08-11 20:27:55.150 packagemaker[840:10b] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSXMLDocument initWithXMLString:options:error:]: nil argument' 2009-08-11 20:27:55.150 packagemaker[840:10b] Stack: ( 2474242027, 2528251451, 2474241483, 2474241546, 2445820292, 453371, 447720, 436209, 435510, 9986, 9918 ) Trace/BPT trap I've attached the crash report. It works fine building the package within the UI. _______________________________________________ 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 packagemaker_2009-08-11-203113_nh-macbookpro.crash

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