September 2009 - Installer-dev

Re: Meta Package in 10.5 to support 10.3 problem
by Iceberg-Dev 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '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=FaUpb5/LFWtb7ldCTyL19MONq1CRU0QGF1ZK5TlPBO8=; b=ilcQ5yz5qrLVEJSuO5yyVK+3ntZjAT/AqORhoKGZrefptDUlxnXzyh/HWOiZl+jQ4t Sb5IF86InTA3NBZiNaNoZBuq/Jhn8fh5xSIMiJgd7q/IA9jpMGsQYGl/YptebngId/DB MvQyoP1N0HEd4cO0oanrzsp2bRUsEqg4m2bBI= 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=hv6OJq9P4VRGI05nBJW5RbhROVi23yg67W9trL1hWQ7Jmps7YuiGEmaxOiju7iHChg aUYaIxwWRJ1eQQzDCSUcEC5YpJptfGzOVetSPpG2hcjL2wppSQlNaKKsg/aj+dKgN8KL UQ7RfObZo+F5EmklCuLPHOWp9caxLgEEB/XEc= On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Sparta wrote: Hello, I have two packages as: Package 1: works on 10.6 onwards: (Gestalt – sysv >= 0x01060) Package 2: works on 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 (Gestalt – sysv < 0x01060) Both the packages work fine independently. Does anyone has seen such problem before? Please suggest me how should I proceed with the package maker. I am building a meta package on 10.5 that supports 10.3 (Install Properties). I have checked system version with Gestalt as shown above in the requirements section for individual addition. The meta-package installs desired files on 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6. Thus Gestalt check works fine on 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6. But on Panther (10.3) when I try to install this meta-package, both the packages are read one by one. Package-2 passes the check and shows the installation screen. But immediately the screen shows “Package-1 can not be installed on this computer” message. Thus ending with only “close” button left to select. Changing the sequence of packages addition has no effect on this result. Do you use a Requirement or an InstallationCheck script for the Gestalt comparison? If you use an InstallationCheck script, which values do you return? _______________________________________________ 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 localize distribution package's requirements message
by Iceberg-Dev 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '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=ZJMFMcwHyVU+neHR0YkukWOpXPlgirtWJlqzFZr7s6I=; b=sZZu9laopnt749xrB4FfTgQhwccDgJ00nzznNVOWf3QJr50BSvJvV5EfoODK40z2LO obf34byQeMctdycB3/VQNf0xImESEM/X96Z0GCfPRp0HhuWaVGzrK+kzwAKDVTJQ2fM4 DadI1dCfhTYUT5aKvP2o8ud9+Xk3tgQepXT+M= 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=phi3d+MwRwGLHO++Yh2icOxBJmSxOWr0OfGv3P6rg3UZ8xV4GFkJIDl4x9bAi/ULBj 2qCTUEW3UiS8n6gzr+0DfeuUUJPEmMn6V9JKRO4859c2ANw8gnP7bKN8sEQXI5TOlmSl Fa+vAygNPqtsgwt3o/3s45zEcT492X6NLH1dw= On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Ben Staveley-Taylor wrote: <script>function pm_install_check() { if(!(system.run('<My script path here>') == true)) { my.result.title = '<my English message title here>'; my.result.message = '<my English message text here>'; my.result.type = 'Fatal'; return false; } return true; } </script> my.result.title = 'MY_KEY_TITLE'; my.result.message = 'MY_KEY_MESSAGE'; English.lproj > Localizable.strings "MY_KEY_TITLE" = "This is my title in English"; "MY_KEY_MESSAGE" = "This is my message in English"; French.lproj > Localizable.strings "MY_KEY_TITLE" = "Ceci est mon titre en Français"; "MY_KEY_MESSAGE" = "Ceci est mon message en Français"; _______________________________________________ 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 anyone know how to provide localizations for the messages displayed by the Requirements elements of a distribution package? (This is using PackageMaker.) I am adding a requirement, if Result of Script then <Failure Message>, and I can't see any way to enter text other than in English. I have created localized Resource folders in the package using the Edit Interface button, but I don't think that's relevant. After building the .mpkg, it contains this in the distribution.dist file: so there doesn't appear to be any language parameter being used. For the record, you can't do this from PackageMaker. You will need to edit the built package. One solution is to use keys for the title and message and then provide standard Localizable.strings file for each localization. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: How to skip 'destination select' step in Iceberg installer?
by Iceberg-Dev 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '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=bUiNMRlZH1QtePA8RrLSrm15yYgeOKkNMGZb1aNhP1o=; b=ApZaPnMftCG7FlUcaHUsSK4mA1ygHxU0GfxgWQjimqPwduM55OIVPijFKBQ1fAqLc6 5dhQ7rixVNuZe6B7II6fkh8F8nt/TKZEweHzRQmAkZJU7kSFJKPxqE7PhVO/vJYyuH5S QhpanXKMA8mqiiPlw4EMUup359IWVktssa7CM= 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=AIRBScH0jxVAzJ1Yo3Z1SspSRLaHKrNCNOCWr/YJb7D3HQFQ+S6wsTwiUSOTt+1oyB +ZNf23oHZEXBXro1G9Y4bAm4jUu8LvnkRxsn1oN51k7+8B7nyxHBw/Aze3cw4jYjSiCb vFyYH0wp07N1fHVKlPtpTTNvk0vAhQPKPYvek= On Sep 8, 2009, at 11:42 AM, FalgupanchalD FalgupanchalD wrote: How to skip 'destination select' step in Iceberg installer? Hi, I 've developed an installer setup for mac in Iceberg software. You can't prevent this whatever software you use to build the package. _______________________________________________ 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 facing a critical issue when any older version of my software is already installed and I try to install the newer one. It shows me the alert dialog on selecting the root volume- that 'the volume already contains the new software and this will replace the newer one with older one. do you like to continue?' This seems so irritating to the end user. so I would like to remove the 'destination select' dialog completely from my installer. Can anyone guide me how this can be possible? This is due to the fact that Installer.app (actually, probably the Installation framework since you can install packages with installer) keeps track of what was installed on your Mac. You would need to help it forget something has been installed. It is usually best to do this in the postflight script. >From Mac OS X 10.0 to 10.5, you can just get rid of the receipt in / Library/Receipts/ (or its home folder counter part). For Mac OS X 10.6, you would need to use the pkgutil tool and the -- forget option. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Signed install packages & signing CA certs
by Kevin Brock 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) Any other suggestions? 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.… We have code signing certificates issued by Thawte and by Verisign. We've found that SL doesn't include the Code Signing CA cert for either Verisign or Thawte. This may also be true on 10.5--this particular problem cropped up around the time SL was coming out, so we were focussing on that. In any case... The necessary certificate isn't downloaded automatically, and we *really* don't want to have to walk customers through downloading and installing the Code Signing CA stuff. I'd be interested in hearing how other people using signed install packages are making this work. Are you using some other type of certificate for the signing (other than a code signing certificate), which is signed by a root which *is* installed by default? Is there a way to include the Verisign/Thawte code signing CA cert with the package? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Not just SnowLeopard-- Re: SL checking bundle versions incorrectly?
by Carl Harris 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Nathan Kinsinger <nkinsinger(a)brotherbard.com> wrote: Basically PackageMaker is storing the original version in it's xml file and then keeps using that old version for it's upgrade check. Delete all occurrences of version="1.0" from the xml file and it will use the apps Info.plist version instead. _______________________________________________ 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 approach worked well for me with Xcode tools 3.1, but not for Xcode tools 3.2. Under 3.2, it seems that removing the "version" attribute from the <component> elements in .pmdoc's internal XML files did not fix the problem. Instead, I found that I had to basically update the version attribute values to match the CFBundleVersion values in Info.plist. I added this to my build workflow using an XSLT transform. I'd be curious to know if removing the version attribute works for others using Xcode tools 3.2. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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How to localize distribution package's requirements message
by Ben Staveley-Taylor 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com <script>function pm_install_check() { if(!(system.run('<My script path here>') == true)) { my.result.title = '<my English message title here>'; my.result.message = '<my English message text here>'; my.result.type = 'Fatal'; return false; } return true; } </script> so there doesn't appear to be any language parameter being used. Thanks, Ben Staveley-Taylor _______________________________________________ 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 anyone know how to provide localizations for the messages displayed by the Requirements elements of a distribution package? (This is using PackageMaker.) I am adding a requirement, if Result of Script then <Failure Message>, and I can't see any way to enter text other than in English. I have created localized Resource folders in the package using the Edit Interface button, but I don't think that's relevant. After building the .mpkg, it contains this in the distribution.dist file: This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Problems packaging a Java app
by Ben Staveley-Taylor 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com -- Ben. On 8 Sep 2009, at 15:24, installer-dev-request(a)lists.apple.com wrote: Message: 6 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 07:01:51 -0700 From: Chris von See <cvonsee(a)comcast.net> Subject: Problems packaging a Java app To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Message-ID: <6A993E47-B42F-4600-9018-2E77BED167E7(a)comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Hi - I'm a newbie to Mac development. I've been trying to use Package Maker to create an installation package for a Java application, but for some reason I can't quite get it to work. The package seems to generate correctly, it looks to be about the right size for the app I'm trying to install, and it runs to completion when I execute it... but none of my files show up in the target directory. _______________________________________________ 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.… My suggestion: check the package's Components tab and see if the "Allow Relocation" box is selected for your app. I'd recommend you unselect it. If it is selected, the installer will find the package by hook or by crook elsewhere on your system and perform the installation there, instead of where you think it is going to. If you've got a development machine with several old copies of the application in various places, it could be going anywhere! If this is your problem, beware also that PackageMaker tends to re- enable the Allow Relocation setting when you make significant changes to the package, so check it again before you ship. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Meta Package in 10.5 to support 10.3 problem
by Sparta 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

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Problems packaging a Java app
by Chris von See 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi - Any ideas? Thanks Chris von See TechAdapt, Inc. _______________________________________________ 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 a newbie to Mac development. I've been trying to use Package Maker to create an installation package for a Java application, but for some reason I can't quite get it to work. The package seems to generate correctly, it looks to be about the right size for the app I'm trying to install, and it runs to completion when I execute it... but none of my files show up in the target directory. I've tried adding things to the install package several different ways: I added the .app only, the directory containing the app, etc., but the only tiime I got anything in the installation target directory was when I added the parent of the directory containing the .app (and even then I only got the directory installed, not the .app file itself). The only thing I can find that could be a problem are the messages like this that I'm seeing in the console: 9/7/09 6:08:42 PM [0x0-0xbd0bd].com.apple.PackageMaker[10972] /usr/bin/ otool: fat file: /Users/cvonsee/myworkspace/AccessibleMediaCenter/Mac/ TAMC-0.3.0/TAMC-0.3.0/TAMC.app/Contents/Resources/Java/webapps/ accessiblemediacenter/WEB-INF/classes/techadapt/accessiblemediacenter/ converter/editscript/system/DAISYContentNormalizer.class offset to architecture cputype (17630976) cpusubtype (33620050) extends past end of file but I'm not quite clear on why this is happening or why the packager is trying to find architecture-specific info in Java class files. Google is silent on the issue. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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RE: clarification re: Mac OS X standard directories inside a component's hierarchy
by Glover,David 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Acomi8l8vyZTlkH4R3+Rypsfhu2YIwJ31rxg Thread-topic: clarification re: Mac OS X standard directories inside a component's hierarchy If your packages are built from the command line using packagemaker, then you have to include standard Mac OS X folders inside your package hierarchy anyway. This is because there are no build flags that allow you to specify a destination folder. Chances are this has changed since the last time I looked though :) -----Original Message----- From: installer-dev-bounces+david.glover=prometheanworld.com(a)lists.apple.com [mailto:installer-dev-bounces+david.glover=prometheanworld.com@lists.app le.com] On Behalf Of Iceberg-Dev Sent: 26 August 2009 21:28 To: justin blecher Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Re: clarification re: Mac OS X standard directories inside a component's hierarchy On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:45 PM, justin blecher wrote: > greetings everyone, > > i'm new around these parts and currently wrestling with the concepts > and best practices for evaluating existing packages, repackaging > non-pkg installers, and rolling out InstaDMG-created images for < 30 > macs i have the pleasure of [part-time] managing. > > today my question centers around this quote: > > Important: Never include Mac OS X standard directories inside a > component's hierarchy. That is, do not reflect any standard part > of the Mac OS X file system (in any of the file system domains) > inside your component's structure. > > [...] > > here's my real questions: > > * is my assumption/interpretaton -- anytime there are items that > belong in a "standard directory", a separate package must be made for > them, targeted to that standard directory -- correct? > > * are my evaluations and suggestions for the fixing (hah!) the > offending packages on the right track? (not like i'm interested in > fixing them, i'm just trying to grok the concepts for my own > packages.) IMHO, this warning is just plain bullsh*t. What you should not do (if you can) is to allow overwriting of the permissions of these standard directories. This somehow assumes that you are confident that no other packages have messed with them. > * what is the definitive list of "Mac OS X standard directories", or > how can i generate it dynamically? You could find it by examining the Essentials.pkg packages from a Mac OS X Install Disc. Pacifist can help. _______________________________________________ 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/david.glover%40prom etheanworld.com This email sent to david.glover(a)prometheanworld.com Promethean Limited is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1308938 and VAT number GB 572 2599 18 ______________________________________________ Promethean Ltd and or associated and or subsidiary companies : The views expressed in this communication may not necessarily be the views held by Promethean Ltd and or associated and or subsidiary companies. This e-mail is for the exclusive use of the addressee(s). Unauthorised disclosure, copying or distribution is prohibited. This e-mail message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. Promethean Ltd and or associated and or subsidiary companies accepts no liability for any loss resulting from this email transmission. Promethean, Promethean House, Lower Philips Road, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB1 5TH, UK. Please update your records accordingly. Thank you! _______________________________________________ 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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