February 2010 - Installer-dev

RE: Creating Single Click Install for Mac OS X
by Adam Peck 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: Acq2Y6wvAao4pP2zQjOFRA2vF7YH7AAk6bKw Thread-topic: Creating Single Click Install for Mac OS X You could always put the archive into an app bundle and have it extract it. Or run an imbedded installer silently. -Adam -----Original Message----- From: installer-dev-bounces+adampeck=smarttech.com(a)lists.apple.com [mailto:installer-dev-bounces+adampeck=smarttech.com@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of Don Montalvo Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:43 PM To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Cc: Chris Devers Subject: Re: Creating Single Click Install for Mac OS X > Chris Devers <cdevers(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > But ARD or Timbuktu are much, much better ways to go about distributing software to a bunch of machines in an automated manner. There's also LanREV, LanDESK, Altiris, FileWave, RadMind, Casper....etc.... LanREV and Casper both offer self-help portals, where users can pick whatever is made available to them. The install runs with admin rights. Available pkgs can be managed via scoping to AD (or OD) groups... 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/adampeck%40smarttech.c… This email sent to adampeck(a)smarttech.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: add-on installers
by sakshi 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

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Re: Are all strings passed to preflight/postflight scripts as ascii or unicode?
by Iceberg-Dev 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '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=6L/QQgh1oVTuprxhw2CrOZdmLoT49pkKg9hWwgsunGk=; b=ovor304+0l2D3WsvI5Mogx4GfEo4ibWLN2Bs2sRbfc2flq9lY8GVdpz1gZrs8VLNIh +wSDBfe5kKiMCdYSLQ8uN+SB0f4JL3idxXWzbXeytpPNhUaCYd1tb1pukgpKywF/tg40 UXO/77fxqXrx+FO1+69eDZ8Ms77lOJItmSeQM= 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=NNpPoyIhNa0NmJyBZeyySf2HEIUXYaymvDS6vgOdejxYi6iYIyykgZb/WCzPSuYwxH 0ZK52yr5mCYaFw7n2fjLccmtR9xa0hzCLlbY4kKto0XdbqrHr51xpshTQpyA+S557U79 fRvxr0ws/lW8GOOnoVOLvlmChxlFcsM7luPsU= On Feb 26, 2010, at 4:37 AM, Chris Kritzer wrote: _______________________________________________ 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.… I have a bug where “special characters” in a user-selected folder named !"§$%&/()=? are being passed to the postflight script (written in perl). The installer log shows the text being passed correctly (except for the forward slash, which it translates to a colon), but the script has all sorts of issues parsing the string. '/' is the only (AFAIK) forbidden character for a path component. So it's really a ':'. Does PackageMaker pass the string as escaped text or does it pass it as Unicode? The installation framework being a Cocoa thing, it's quite probable C strings passed to scripts as arguments or env vars are built using UTF8String or fileSystemRepresentation. Both are usually the same, but apparently sometimes there can be a difference. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Are all strings passed to preflight/postflight scripts as ascii or unicode?
by Chris Kritzer 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

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Re: Creating Single Click Install for Mac OS X
by Don Montalvo 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

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Re: Creating Single Click Install for Mac OS X
by Chris Devers 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '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:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type; bh=mcISH9MpvCaFpZjfRxNldJiqdi6QZvwjVt/slHJQPcc=; b=CnfMadEjzx5sE6Tc+OVbEEZ1jlzMTNMbBlbgxJY4GQ4C0aauJRtg5r4csxXBJV8xnD LBsWs46bbDvk09u/g+1yL0PoPOzhjgCD7KCS1tnrQWaB9OtLyjBFXAbwxw/MZKmZ7hjL WDLUU0gaq+f5ez5OBvxBDSpMEAQT8DP0WXHRk= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; b=Dj6w+0UK5kGZdB6iP6LUqUpRTXAbfVzdXUN+t57wpTNhZz0C+G6zpbFpdb/8jEGQmQ 2Yax8r3n4gH7yl+G7d7ReW1ArUTo4QLajnK69sC5wQOGKO0GtxAjbAL/MlE0nNJJlUyU rLIwOUXwudxDnEqm70Fkg05g+AHRxdL8gbxwk= On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Iceberg-Dev <dev.iceberg(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 25, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Karthikeyan M wrote: > >> I need to create a Single Click Install for Mac OS X. One of our >> enterprise clients require it immediately. Please suggest as soon as >> possible. >> >> Just user need to double click the package, it should install in the >> background silently and after installation it should show application is >> installed. >> >> Windows Packagers do this but I dont have idea to do it on mac since I am >> new to packaging. > > And where exactly should the application be installed? Perhaps /usr/local/fantasyland ? :-) Non-facetiously, if you need to automate installation across multiple machines, there are many ways to do this, and any "enterprise" worth the name probably has some at hand. Two obvious ways to mass-distribute installation packages are with Apple's Remote Desktop (ARD) application, and Timbuktu Pro: http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/ http://www.netopia.com/software/products/tb2/mac/ If for some reason this "enterprise" is some other starship class and they need an alternate solution, you could always just figure out how you'd want to run the installer from the command line, and distribute the installer with a Unix shell script that runs the installer with the desired options. For example: $ ls StarshipSoftware InstallStarship.command StarshipSoftware.pkg $ cat InstallStarship.command #!/bin/sh sudo /usr/sbin/installer -pkg StarshipSoftware.pkg -target / $ chmod +x InstallStarship.command There are much better ways to do this -- Terminal scares people, the sudo command will choke if the current admin user doesn't have a password set, etc -- but it would make it so that the package would automatically install after launching the Terminal window and entering the password. But ARD or Timbuktu are much, much better ways to go about distributing software to a bunch of machines in an automated manner. -- Chris Devers _______________________________________________ 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: 10.4: Installing to desktop
by Colin Cornaby 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Feb 25, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Colin Cornaby wrote: > >> We have a bunch of artwork that we want to secure with a serial number (and I've explained that the contents of an installer can be easily decompressed), but of course there doesn't seem to be a good place just to install a bunch of files. The team that is running the project wants me to put it on the user desktop, but also wants it to be a user customizable path, and we have to support 10.4. > > I'm not sure to follow the serial number thing. If the plan is to use a serial number in the installer via an Installer plugin, this is pointless. Installer Plugins can be skipped, removed, etc. Yes, I'm aware, I've raised these points, but I'm just a code monkey following orders. :) > > If the serial number is more a password than a serial number, why not use an encrypted disk image? > > 1. It's a bit more secure (it's secure as long as the password is not shared publicly (serial numbers have the same issues BTW)). > > 2. The disk image will mount on the Desktop. > > 3. The user can copy them wherever (s)he wants to. They want each user to have an individual serial number. _______________________________________________ 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: 10.4: Installing to desktop
by Iceberg-Dev 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

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Re: Creating Single Click Install for Mac OS X
by Iceberg-Dev 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

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Re: 10.4: Installing to desktop
by Paul Sanders 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

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