November 2010 - Installer-dev

RE: Error running a pkg on 10.3.9
by Michael Stauffer (Circular Logic) 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Act7MrXesgarIhP6SOaQGo/8GkLXIgAIEU8A Yes, thanks. I double-checked the min install OS, and it was 10.5 for the meta/main package. I'd only set it to 10.3 for the sub-packages. Thanks! I wonder why apple changed to a flat package. It use to be helpful sometimes to look in a package bundle when the install wasn't going well. Cheers >-----Original Message----- >From: Iceberg-Dev [mailto:dev.iceberg@gmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:40 AM >To: Michael Stauffer (Circular Logic) >Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com >Subject: Re: Error running a pkg on 10.3.9 > >> Hi, >> >> I've created a .pkg with PM 3 on 10.5. I set the pkg's minimum OS >> version as 10.3. It works fine on 10.5 and 10.6, but when I run on >> 10.3.9 (PMac G4), I get the error "the bill of materials for this >> package was not found". > >Is the minimum OS version a requirement or the target OS? > >> The pkg contains two other packages. PM used to make a metapackage, >> but >> when I loaded the PM project into PM 3, it now builds only as a .pkg, >> not .mpkg. Is this part of the problem? >> >> Also, the final output pkg is a file, not a bundle, which is also >> new to >> me. The sub packages I built with PM 3 are .pkg files too, but >> bundles. >> Is there something I set in one project but not the other that I >> haven't >> found? > >If you get a file instead of a bundle, this could mean that the >target OS has changed and is now 10.5 and you are building a flat >package/distribution instead of a bundle package/metapackage. > > > > _______________________________________________ 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: Push a plist file to all users - ownership question
by Per Olofsson 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AQHLexhedQev2TEV5kCJGgKBqxcoPZNfhE2AgAAL+QA= Thread-topic: Push a plist file to all users - ownership question 3 nov 2010 kl. 11.55 skrev Jason Pelletier: > If you don't care about the group ownership as much you cam just add a single line to the loop you already have. We do this all the time. > >> #!/bin/sh >> # >> # loop >> for i in $(/bin/ls /Users) >> do >> /usr/bin/ditto /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.mypreference.plist /Users/$i/Library/Preferences/com.mypreference.plist > > chown $i:staff /Users/$i/Library/Preferences/com.mypreferences.plist > >> done >> exit 0 Be aware that this does not cover: * Accounts created later. * Network accounts. * Filevault protected accounts. A LoginHook or a script that runs before the app is launched covers all users. -- Per Olofsson, IT-service, 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: Push a plist file to all users - ownership question
by Jason Pelletier 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AQHLexhdG4OgxTjOiUa3biyeeW213JNflRGk Thread-topic: Push a plist file to all users - ownership question If you don't care about the group ownership as much you cam just add a single line to the loop you already have. We do this all the time. > #!/bin/sh > # > # loop > for i in $(/bin/ls /Users) > do > /usr/bin/ditto /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.mypreference.plist /Users/$i/Library/Preferences/com.mypreference.plist chown $i:staff /Users/$i/Library/Preferences/com.mypreferences.plist > done > exit 0 > > Jason On Nov 3, 2010, at 1:31 AM, "Don Montalvo" <donmontalvo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > We have a plist file we need to push out to the User Template and all existing users. We can push them easily to the User template since we know the plist files need to be owned by root:wheel. However, putting a copy of this file in each existing user's home directory is proving to be a challenge. > > We can use ditto to copy the file to each user's home directory: > > #!/bin/sh > # > # loop > for i in $(/bin/ls /Users) > do > /usr/bin/ditto /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.mypreference.plist /Users/$i/Library/Preferences/com.mypreference.plist > done > exit 0 > > But how do we then set the ownership of the file to each respective user? I hope it's something we can add to the above script. Perhaps another loop function? > > PS, This is a vendor provided plist file that isn't compatible with defaults command, so we have to push the file out to everyone. > > Thanks, > Don _______________________________________________ > 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/jpellet2%40bowdoin.edu > > This email sent to jpellet2(a)bowdoin.edu _______________________________________________ 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: Push a plist file to all users - ownership question
by Iceberg-Dev 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '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:mime-version:in-reply-to :references:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from :subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=rmk6d+kp6oEpkVrwwZatSe1e9zXfLf9B/DwvbAxyHiE=; b=nfhtwCz2eYYnXHnC0DeiL/0UbktIXQs4zXpo82U4lWkLmMveIsT69YHFVnqYZoebhl BteOdsAPRrdlUHjRsVC8f7qj44bbPHlTvrheJ6eBspNLamxsn/73sx2hM+rEuLOiXxQ+ KusRzesJMlns3B7aq5MzBb09XyqhRLqGPjZhw= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:content-type:message-id :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=SkbRVFWxRrk2IbPzZGLTukmqFfMftCZB1T+/97V840Ua9962WaHS19s3pMKL1nI7+h mPxcCm4mc8s2ZboCQwyq97i5HkJi3bOkTG46OVv9Vy+6NQFBnLkKoN78pJIgq7TfXyIL WbKDnXu7n7e8UQWLsjoHjCfPSK00YD8faL3DI= On Nov 3, 2010, at 6:31 AM, Don Montalvo wrote: We can use ditto to copy the file to each user's home directory: http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/files/bristow_src.zip _______________________________________________ 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 a plist file we need to push out to the User Template and all existing users. We can push them easily to the User template since we know the plist files need to be owned by root:wheel. However, putting a copy of this file in each existing user's home directory is proving to be a challenge. #!/bin/sh # # loop for i in $(/bin/ls /Users) do /usr/bin/ditto /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/ Library/Preferences/com.mypreference.plist /Users/$i/Library/ Preferences/com.mypreference.plist done exit 0 But how do we then set the ownership of the file to each respective user? I hope it's something we can add to the above script. Perhaps another loop function? PS, This is a vendor provided plist file that isn't compatible with defaults command, so we have to push the file out to everyone. Another solution could be to code a helper tool which can access Directory Services. Directory Services is IMHO one of the less intelligible API on Mac OS X but it's possible to use existing code. For instance, you can start with the bristow source code (Cocoa) to get the list of users directory and the uid/gid: This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Error running a pkg on 10.3.9
by Iceberg-Dev 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

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Re: Push a plist file to all users - ownership question
by Per Olofsson 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AQHLexhedQev2TEV5kCJGgKBqxcoPZNfTWuA Thread-topic: Push a plist file to all users - ownership question 3 nov 2010 kl. 06.31 skrev Don Montalvo: > We have a plist file we need to push out to the User Template and all existing users. We can push them easily to the User template since we know the plist files need to be owned by root:wheel. However, putting a copy of this file in each existing user's home directory is proving to be a challenge. How about a LoginHook: #!/bin/bash LOGINUSER="$1" PREFS=`eval echo "~$LOGINUSER/Library/Preferences"` UIDGID=`stat -f "%u:%g" "$PREFS"` if [ ! -e "$PREFS/com.example.pref.plist ]; then cp "/Library/Application Support/IBetItsAJavaApp/com.example.pref.plist" "$PREFS/" chown "$UIDGID" "$PREFS/com.example.pref.plist" fi -- 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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Push a plist file to all users - ownership question
by Don Montalvo 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

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Error running a pkg on 10.3.9
by Michael Stauffer (Circular Logic) 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Act7CKJq0Fe4T9DWQK+k6imkB6xKTA== Hi, I've created a .pkg with PM 3 on 10.5. I set the pkg's minimum OS version as 10.3. It works fine on 10.5 and 10.6, but when I run on 10.3.9 (PMac G4), I get the error "the bill of materials for this package was not found". The pkg contains two other packages. PM used to make a metapackage, but when I loaded the PM project into PM 3, it now builds only as a .pkg, not .mpkg. Is this part of the problem? Also, the final output pkg is a file, not a bundle, which is also new to me. The sub packages I built with PM 3 are .pkg files too, but bundles. Is there somethine I set in one project but not the other that I haven't found? Thanks for any help!! Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ 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: Need to alert user from install script in metapackage
by Stephane Sudre 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '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:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=saqQbJ9MraPH30kClVUj2NJgjzIq/bvPYs4rBYCtoio=; b=hiPoIK91wssCiywq6N4yflqrEZUfmxSWOHtxwRXCsCbdvvU63EZsQlXBErLsHvfLqc 2vSjMqIhLJk1lOLtNmACArw24NVAIeyY2Bde6RgoYbnrwuMd0bKFq6+8u9YWRFFAT67J 8sK9WZrEGV7Os7AeXxnj6pfhEQD49m/I0dvEA= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=AocJvM659ZKWRqs+i5HA1Cnhj5lfh8xWwFBfekRZsHAmJ7kNRhclZBTgS1xQWrfkWV SJEIsNaqI1rvnXSNTK+SPlmyvhJDWrhzj0uD3IVBF44Gr+b/84O31cpVomPAJMi1HJxY q/d2+eq3JoS2caKWjmOYYMTvrMn95ElH13q1Y= On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Monte Benaresh <monte(a)paceap.com> wrote: [...] > What I would like to do is: > > 1. Communicate the result of each sub-component's InstallationCheck to the metapackage preflight script. > > 2. Show an alert message to the user from the metapackage preflight script. > > Is it possible to do either one of these? [1] is possible if you use an external file to store the results. But this would require checking that the scripts are run in the same order on every major release of the OS you want to support. For instance, you could 'touch' a file in /tmp when an InstallationCheck script allows a package to be installed and not display the alert message when the file exists. You would need to remove the file upon installation just in case. [2] is possible with a helper tool using for instance the CFUserNotification APIs (http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/CoreFoundation/Refere…) _______________________________________________ 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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Need to alert user from install script in metapackage
by Monte Benaresh 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi All, I hope I am not posting too many questions. We are close to getting a metapackage done, but we have a problem... I have written InstallationCheck scripts for both of my sub-components, and they are able to determine whether a newer version is already installed and return a failure code. The problem is, if the installed versions of both sub-components are newer, the user is left with an Installer.app window with the "Install" button grayed-out and no good message. The only way to know why this is happening (other than looking in the system log) is to go to "Customize" and hover the mouse over the grayed-out entries in the list. What I would like to do is: 1. Communicate the result of each sub-component's InstallationCheck to the metapackage preflight script. 2. Show an alert message to the user from the metapackage preflight script. Is it possible to do either one of these? Thanks again, Monte Benaresh PACE Anti-Piracy _______________________________________________ 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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