November 2010 - Installer-dev

Where is Software Delivery Guide?
by Steve Slanec 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

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Enumerating folders/files in dmg without mounting it & selective file extraction
by Sachin Porwal 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

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how to find if particular package has been selected or not through shell script.
by Falguni Panchal 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

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Re: Package installation slow in Snow Leopard
by Vivek R K 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

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Re: Gestalt help required with Iceberg
by Hirtle, Clif 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcuHYZ2b1yPNOT2tRIqrFAHZhboo/g== Thread-topic: Gestalt help required with Iceberg Spotted the older thread on gestalt system versions below and hoping someone could advise a seemingly obvious issue... How do you get an installer to set a minimum target OS value of 10.5.8 if setting the "sys3" / bug fix value of "8" exceeds later OS values in 10.6.5? Appears these three values would have to be conditional, no? How is that accomplished via the interface provided in Iceberg? Cliff Hirtle University of CT Information Technology Services Re: Gestalt help required with Iceberg • Subject: Re: Gestalt help required with Iceberg • From: Mike Fischer <email@hidden> • Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 18:38:06 +0200 • Delivered-to: email@hidden • Delivered-to: email@hidden Am 21.05.2008 um 18:23 schrieb "Glover,David" <email@hidden>: I'm using Iceberg to create packages and only want some to be installed on certain versions of Mac OS. To do this I'm setting up some requirements that use gestalt to retrieve the system version - the only problem is that gestalt doesn't return 10.3.9 for example, but returns the value as 4153. And if you convert that decimal number to hex you get: 0x1039. Does that ring a bell? ;-) This is fine, but I cannot find what the gestalt value is for any other OS versions other than 10.3.9! Does anyone know this information, or point me in the right direction? There is a more basic problem though: You are using the gestaltSystemVersion ('sysv') selector. It only allows for single digit BCD BugFix parts of the version. So any version of Tiger after 10.4.9 can't be represented! Instead use the three selectors: gestaltSystemVersionMajor = 'sys1', gestaltSystemVersionMinor = 'sys2', gestaltSystemVersionBugFix = 'sys3' See the Gestalt Manager Reference for details. <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/ Gestalt_Manager/> HTH Mike -- Mike Fischer Softwareentwicklung, EDV-Beratung Schulung, Vertrieb Note: I read this list in digest mode! Send me a private copy for faster responses. _______________________________________________ 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: Package installation slow in Snow Leopard
by Greg Neagle 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

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Package installation slow in Snow Leopard
by Vivek R K 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

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Re: Installed owner/group
by Per Olofsson 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AQHLgoLuZS/OEX0CHEev+8VVnnpyy5NvaCmA Thread-topic: Installed owner/group 12 nov 2010 kl. 17.01 skrev James Turner: > In my .pmdoc, I've set all the owner and group permissions 'correctly', i.e root/admin for everything, in particular set the owner, group and permissions such that launchd will accept the plist. Unfortunately when installing, most of the files (90%?) end up with my user and group, not those specified in the pmdoc. Try setting the owner to root:admin before adding the files to the packagemaker project. It seems to ignore what you set in packagemaker half the time, and just use what's on disk when you're building. -- 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: Installed owner/group
by Paul Sanders 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

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Re: Installed owner/group
by Iceberg-Dev 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

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