December 2010 - Installer-dev

Re: Way to run a pkg at STARTUP time? [CORRECTION]
by Bill Coderre 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Dec 9, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Don Montalvo wrote: > (Correction: needs to run at start up - not at login) > > We have a pkg installer in this directory: > > /Library/Scripts/ourpackage.pkg > > How do we use launchd to trigger this pkg at startup? It needs to run every time the computer starts up. What are you really trying to accomplish, that you think you have to run an installer package every time the computer starts up? _______________________________________________ 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: Way to run a pkg at STARTUP time? [CORRECTION]
by Don Montalvo 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

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Re: Way to run a pkg at STARTUP time? [CORRECTION]
by Greg Neagle 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

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Re: Way to run a pkg at STARTUP time? [CORRECTION]
by Don Montalvo 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

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Re: Way to run a pkg at STARTUP time? [CORRECTION]
by Chris Devers 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

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Way to run a pkg at STARTUP time? [CORRECTION]
by Don Montalvo 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

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Way to run a pkg at login time?
by Don Montalvo 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

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Re: Install folder in users Documents
by Harry Haddon 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Seconding what Greg said, I would add that Apple's guidelines encourage the installation of application specific files to Library/Application Support/<your app name>. If the folder is to be shared by all users, you can put your folder in the root Library folder, /Library/Application Support. This is where for example GarageBand puts its demo songs. If the installed folder is not to be shared, the folder could be installed in ~/Library/Application Support. Harry (who dislikes installers that put stuff in my Documents folder) On Dec 8, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Greg Neagle wrote: > Re-think your installer and your application. > > Which user's Documents folder should you install this folder into? The user currently running the installer? What if this user is one of several users on the machine? What if the installer is being run as part of an automated install process, and there is no logged in user? > > Fine, you say. I'll just write a postflight script that iterates through /Users/* and adds it to all the /Users/*/Documents/ folders. > > But then -- what about users that are created _after_ the software is installed? What about users that have FileVault-protected home directories? What about network or external users, whose home directories are not under /Users/? > > During installation is the _wrong_ place and time for this task, as you are making assumptions which may not be true. > > If this folder is truly needed, then it's best to have a copy of the default contents somewhere in the application's resources, and on first launch of the app for a given user, copy the folder into the right place. > > If you are not the developer of the software or cannot change this aspect of it, then you should create a user-level LaunchAgent that does the copying for you, and install that in /Library/LaunchAgents. Upon login, the LaunchAgent runs and can see if the folder exists for the user, and if not, it can copy it into place. > > -Greg > > On Dec 8, 2010, at 12:08 PM, koko(a)highrolls.net wrote: > >> How do I get a folder installed into the users documents folder? >> >> currently I have /Documents as the destination but this make a documents folder at the startup drive root. >> >> ? >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/greg.neagle%40disneyan… >> >> This email sent to greg.neagle(a)disneyanimation.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/harry.haddon%40fandm.e… > > This email sent to harry.haddon(a)fandm.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: Display Package Bundles as Regular Directories??
by Per Olofsson 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AQHLlyTM9c+YfNvbCkCn3IXCCzgQYpOXHAOAgADvF4A= Thread-topic: Display Package Bundles as Regular Directories?? 9 dec 2010 kl. 00.13 skrev Harald Wagener: > Would listing the hierarchy in a text format help? In that case, using 'find' on the command line may be easier than trying to muck with finder views. This won't show you the actual payload files. For flat packages you can use: pkgutil --payload-files flat.pkg For bundle packages you can use: lsbom bundle.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom For bundle mpkgs there's no easy way that I know of. -- 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: How to access PackageMaker extract location in preupgrade shell script
by Stephane Sudre 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

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