October 2010 - Installer-dev

Re: How does installer decide what to install
by Iceberg-Dev 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

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Re: How does installer decide what to install
by Monte Benaresh 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello All, Is anyone aware of a good work-around for this problem, other than breaking up our metapackage into separate installs? Is there a good way to use InstallationCheck or a preflight script to prevent the user from installing an old version for one of N components? We are using Iceberg, BTW. Many thanks, Monte Benaresh PACE Anti-Piracy On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:55 AM, Stephane Sudre wrote: > Looks like a bug of Installer.app. The only thing you can do is report > it to Apple's Bug Reporter system. > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Alexander Cohen > <alexcohen(a)toomuchspace.com> wrote: >> Heres what i've got. I have a metapackage create with PackageMaker 2.0 that contains 4 packages also created with 2.0. The version numbers of all packages and metapackes have been bumped up and the identifiers have not changed. When i run the old metapackage over the new one, it just runs through as an upgrade and installs everything. If i run each of the old packages over the new install, each package wont let me install and says a newer version already exists on disk. This is the right behavior but users wont install like that. So why wont the old metapackage either not replace anything on disk or just tell the user that there is a newer version disk. > _______________________________________________ > 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/monte%40paceap.com > > This email sent to monte(a)paceap.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.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Everything installs in /Applications, but not *.app bundles
by Greg Neagle 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Oct 27, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: > <snip> > If you look at the Installer logs, does it say that the application was relocated during install to another location (like where another instance of the application already exists)? > > If the answer is yes, this is a known issue that can be addressed by unchecking the option to search for previous instances. > > That being said, I'm wondering whether this "bug" is going to make it to the Mac App Store. ***Speculation ahead*** I'm betting not, because I'm betting the Mac App Store won't be using Installer.app or /usr/sbin/installer at all. The leaked guidelines for apps that can be submitted for inclusion in the Mac App Store say all apps must consist of a single, self-contained bundle, and may not install files outside that bundle. This makes sense, since the demo last week showed apps being installed without any prompt for admin credentials. This means the apps will be installed with a simple copy to some place the user has "write" rights, and removed with a simple delete operation. More complex software that requires an Installer package simply will not be available on the Mac App Store. -Greg _______________________________________________ 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: Everything installs in /Applications, but not *.app bundles
by Iceberg-Dev 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

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=71uRVemQIx0hqP4zZ7QOIlwTNe0wm5vlVjk+Oep54QY=; b=Z6+2hkEsbdvVoUOx0sEX0gbZH523gX5tv+eeAS0+YsSCSeM1V+GPSnVm+SvG6IfPLw NldFKqXYIx6qWbJc0kZYKlOFkVBZ4dly2oKA1nam3AC64xdwVB7zG68G36qUjM/KJxiV rr42RX2H5cd06MaeNftPTReWf9aAqMvaw0XFg= 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=mqzNUjLAizxZSnKfp3g7xahA0ffXZLVOs3sqVx5WtaL1PRwZZ2myNTULZ8kPCroA1J 4wgRn7fqpOIAZie4NsnC8kJY+t9XjVNfKN2lbK4kExR0y9GU//pXGDDfnVNqR3lHQQlZ Q58FjUHNw8BP8bbiORbkn+GF89t644afOcjv4= On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:16 PM, eveningnick eveningnick wrote: Hello I was trying to understand how to build an installer package with PackageMaker, and have faced with a problem. I want to install an *.app bundle that i have created, using a *pkg file, that i created with PackageMaker. The problem is that Installer (or PackageMaker?) doesn't want to install *.app bundles to Applications, while it successfully install anything else - folders, ordinary and binary files there. I can't understand, why? The "lowest" MacOS version specified is Leopard 10.5 Is it because of some security issues, that i haven't counted? Do these bundles have to be signed with a certificate to be installed? What can cause that problem? Thanks! Let me guess… _______________________________________________ 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.… If you look at the Installer logs, does it say that the application was relocated during install to another location (like where another instance of the application already exists)? If the answer is yes, this is a known issue that can be addressed by unchecking the option to search for previous instances. That being said, I'm wondering whether this "bug" is going to make it to the Mac App Store. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Everything installs in /Applications, but not *.app bundles
by eveningnick eveningnick 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

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Re: How to pass variable to preflight/Volumecheck using installer command to do installation?
by Shaguo 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

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Re: How to pass variable to preflight/Volumecheck using installer command to do installation?
by Shaguo 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

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Re: How to pass variable to preflight/Volumecheck using installer command to do installation?
by Per Olofsson 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AQHLdPNsDcUP7Jhh902gwG42lC6nGZNS8liA Thread-topic: How to pass variable to preflight/Volumecheck using installer command to do installation? 26 okt 2010 kl. 11.51 skrev Shaguo: > Is there any way to pass a variable to the preflight script using installer command to install a pkg? /usr/sbin/installer cleans the environment, so I'm afraid that's a no go. What are you trying to accomplish? -- Per Olofsson System Administrator, ITS, University of Gothenburg _______________________________________________ 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 pass variable to preflight/Volumecheck using installer command to do installation?
by David Buxton 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On 26 Oct 2010, at 10:51, Shaguo wrote: > Is there any way to pass a variable to the preflight script using installer command to install a pkg? > > # sudo installer -pkg xxx.pkg -target / > > I want to pass a variable to the Volumecheck/preflight scripts. Usually, the export command can set variable to its children processes. But it does not work for the installer. For example, > #export xx=s; (sudo installer -pkg xxx.pkg -target / ) > preflight can not get the variable xx. This may be because sudo cleans its environment rather than installer cleaning it for the package scripts. What if you set your environment variable like this: sudo xx=s installer -pkg xxx.pkg -target / Make any difference? I haven't checked whether installer does also clean the environment for scripts - if it does then obviously this won't help much. David B. _______________________________________________ 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 pass variable to preflight/Volumecheck using installer command to do installation?
by Shaguo 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

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