December 2010 - Installer-dev

Re: Post Install Script
by Stephane Sudre 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

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Re: Display Package Bundles as Regular Directories??
by Harald Wagener 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

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How to access PackageMaker extract location in preupgrade shell script
by Rammohan Akula 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

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Display Package Bundles as Regular Directories??
by Paul Cook 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Might anyone know of any preference, defaults write command or utility that may be used to display package bundles as directories/folders on OS-X?? I want to temporarily undo a feature that Apple has worked hard to implement. For documentation purposes, I'd like to take some screen shots in list view, and I'd like to be able to show the packages with their contents. I know that one can right click, or control click to "Show Package Contents", but that view doesn't include the outer package itself or it's enclosing folder. I don't care this process keeps the package from installing. I just need it for the screen shots. It would be nice if I could change it back, but if I can't, that's OK too, I can do it on a work machine and then re-image the machine. Best Wishes, Paul _______________________________________________ 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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Post Install Script
by koko＠highrolls.net 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com It does not appear that my post install script is running. How can I verify that it is being called? -koko _______________________________________________ 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: Install folder in users Documents
by Greg Neagle 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com 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/site_archiver%40lists.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Install folder in users Documents
by koko＠highrolls.net 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

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Re: Install folder in users Documents
by Kari McNair 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

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Re: PM stalls
by Robert Bielik 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 Thnx, I see. Cmd-L showed pretty much exactly that. Alrighty then! :) /Rob _______________________________________________ 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.… Greg Neagle skrev 2010-12-08 19:13: You added or updated a kext, so now you get to wait for the kext cache to be rebuilt. The time this takes is dependent on how many kexts are installed, not how many _you_ installed or updated. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Install folder in users Documents
by koko＠highrolls.net 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com How do I get a folder installed into the users documents folder? ? _______________________________________________ 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.… currently I have /Documents as the destination but this make a documents folder at the startup drive root. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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