February 2010 - Installer-dev

Re: Preventing files from overwriting
by Iceberg-Dev 05 Feb '10

05 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:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-priority:content-type:message-id :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=rv17ByMP6uUdKlQHu5Mrfs+b0VNOFJvdYmJagd/DR6Q=; b=MNrNpoNOaWGP1naizgO4zpcu4VtMTcNj6ptO9CxmHBtgh8eYkvP58H9ABEcsUgbMUX z5l9C2bgc4Q+A39GbISPLu8edz3d4Nu7WqicGMHPIAVCc5AyCXttAfHkRMQ83jiX5Eu+ SnCU3fKo1SEsZmzkjwZSRQM5D3AsZ/qCfyXHg= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:x-priority:content-type :message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=Q++wAHc3AFL/PDEkW8cWJ6IlwG4BQgSmewXIgCTpMEHd+8JEA/mcZUkBOS8zQXNKs3 tWDaePtis4fvNnI7IcNco3gUsEYh/t1nTjCUbCpQKuTjwH8HI9BIoCNi0O2cda74q7FV ux8B9jLOE6YkfXF01lAY48r0gSyH8R81y3XzE= On Feb 5, 2010, at 8:49 PM, Mark Hatsell wrote: Hello Which package format? _______________________________________________ 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 was wondering if there is any way to prevent a package from overwriting specific files if they are already present on the target system? I have a license file that needs to be copied to a certain location on the first install but never overwritten on any subsequent installs of the same or higher version of the package. IIRC, there is an undocumented trick to do this prior to flat package. This would require to look in the list archives. Anyway, considering it's only one file, whatever the format is, a possible solution is to go with a distribution script or a metapackage. You create a specific package for this file. You set an installation requirement so that the package will not install if the file is already there. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Installer Distribution packages
by Iceberg-Dev 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

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Installer Distribution packages
by Heizer, Charles 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcqmqphhHsPpZ1JXQ7GBi5NS2PQ0jQ== Thread-topic: Installer Distribution packages Hello, I'm looking for a way to install .dist files from the command-line? Why, well if you choose download from Softwareupdate it downloads the updates to /Library/Updates and the packages are spread out but the .dist file has the whole thing. Now if you double click the .dist file it opens in "installer" and installs just fine, but the install fails if you try to use installer from the command line. Has anyone come across this and found a solution? Thanks, Charles _______________________________________________ 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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Preventing files from overwriting
by Mark Hatsell 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

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Re: Unsaved settings
by Robert Claeson 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On 3 Feb 2010, at 23:06, Jack Repenning wrote: > Using PackageMaker 3.0.4 (in OS X 10.6.2), some settings I make don't get saved in the .pmdoc, so the next time I build the .mpkg, it comes out wrong and user installs fail, or do the wrong thing. Is there something I can do to make this setting stick? Nope. It's a bug. > One specific instace is the "Allow Relocation" check box in the Components tab of the Package panel of the InstallRoot folder of the primary "Choice." I want this unchecked. For most of the components of the package, this works: I uncheck it once, save the .pmdoc, and ever afterwards when I use this .pmdoc, the box comes up unchecked, as I like it. But for one component, no: every time I open the .pmdoc, I find the box checked again. Yes. And it's the same with the permissions settings. > I'm not entirely clear on what this "Allow Relocation" check box means. Does this mean the same as allowing "Install Destination" other than System volume? Or does it have something to do with the .app/Contents/MacOS/* binary files' library linkage ("otool -L" output)? Something else? All I've learned is that, if I leave this box checked, the app does not end up where I expect it, nor can I figger out where it did end up. If you leave the box checked the installer will find any existing instance of the application of your hard drive, not necessarily in /Applications, and overwrite it. If it's a new install it will install as normal in /Applications (or wherever you choose). You have to go through the entire installer document and check all the settings each time you build a new installation package, which is a major pain. Robert _______________________________________________ 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 smime.p7s

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Unsaved settings
by Jack Repenning 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Using PackageMaker 3.0.4 (in OS X 10.6.2), some settings I make don't get saved in the .pmdoc, so the next time I build the .mpkg, it comes out wrong and user installs fail, or do the wrong thing. Is there something I can do to make this setting stick? One specific instace is the "Allow Relocation" check box in the Components tab of the Package panel of the InstallRoot folder of the primary "Choice." I want this unchecked. For most of the components of the package, this works: I uncheck it once, save the .pmdoc, and ever afterwards when I use this .pmdoc, the box comes up unchecked, as I like it. But for one component, no: every time I open the .pmdoc, I find the box checked again. The one component is a bit off the beaten path. It's an app (a .app bundle) generated by Xcode. But it's stored inside another component, which is a .plugin bundle. See the attached screenshot of PackageMaker, which shows the state I always find upon opening the .pmdoc. The component hierarchy shown here is a correct and accurate reflection of the actual way things are organized on disc, both in the InstallRoot directory and in the ultimate deployed product. The InstallRoot PackageMaker Contents were generated by adding the InstallRoot folder; PackageMaker searched out the individual components therein, and made this configuration. I'm not entirely clear on what this "Allow Relocation" check box means. Does this mean the same as allowing "Install Destination" other than System volume? Or does it have something to do with the .app/Contents/MacOS/* binary files' library linkage ("otool -L" output)? Something else? All I've learned is that, if I leave this box checked, the app does not end up where I expect it, nor can I figger out where it did end up. -==- Jack Repenning jackrepenning(a)tigris.org Project Owner SCPlugin http://scplugin.tigris.org "Subversion for the rest of OS X" _______________________________________________ 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: [Q] PackageMaker 3.0.4 on Snow Leopard
by Bryan Lee 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcqDYJTx4WS7AJaTTvmPY1cq9JS0MghiOaQ8 Thread-topic: [Q] PackageMaker 3.0.4 on Snow Leopard User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/13.3.0.091002 I have this behavior as well and have since Snow Leopard Xcode version was released with PackageMaker 3.0.4 (keep meaning to drop a bug report, but time never permits it). I've just been rebuilding my packages as I update them, of course, putting off the largest, most involved one until I absolutely have to rebuild it. -- Bryan S. Lee > From: JongAm Park <joshua_park2006-applelist(a)yahoo.com> > Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:42:21 -0500 > To: Installer-Dev mailing-list <installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com>, > "mmille45(a)harris.com" <mmille45(a)harris.com> > Subject: [Q] PackageMaker 3.0.4 on Snow Leopard > > Hello. > > Today, I opened a installer project file with the PackageMaker 3.0.4 on > Snow Leopard. > The installer project file was created on Leopard. > > What is weird is that how it organizes the content treed on the > left-side pane on the PackageMaker window. > > This is the original. > > Content Header 1 > | > -- MyApp 1 > > Content Header 2 > | > -- MyApp 2 > > However, when it is opened on Snow Leopard, it becomes like > > Content Header 1 > Content Header 2 > | > -- MyApp 1 > -- MyApp 2 > > > Do others also notice this problem? > Shall I post it using Apple's bug report page? > > Thank you. > JongAm Park > > _______________________________________________ > 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/bl%40clemson.edu > > This email sent to bl(a)clemson.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: How to see the package contents on snow leopard.
by Karthikeyan M 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

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Re: How to see the package contents on snow leopard.
by Iceberg-Dev 02 Feb '10

02 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:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding :from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=zMaa11REsmGN+NIT5hB/vv3OXJmVUxqa24wsbwNOXTM=; b=tWBSHf3S4Toxm4/DxdeipesMIbRbiRCmIlKsGikrzoFpCP8M6Qb8fdAEpyV2Bl6Vwn EcnAFz+9m21HckhJyq6720CpkVYjwQuJORkNdWhgsYNVBWhd6ViIyQShk/WJxXI60uF9 wgNiZN5sqc7uc1tDDWAV7NfjU1R5JxuDTcXnY= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=Md8RXKKt3FyzHpAk+MTZeMKokciz9hddihFBQFajXlNT1aR/QwF5rcyZ3QfW+YHa4j HlnkB75UN13SdW6QZawaNf6zVRsDKxBUr/QCFdfOI5moZORXoRl3LiAdZJgEcUp45bAQ iqkzjN12nUTTL1V0Zowa/qhjsb8Y9CWzW0gDA= On Feb 2, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Dan Ribe wrote: Hi All, Pacifist should be your new best friend. http://www.charlessoft.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.… I am creating a installer package with some preinstall & postinstall scripts. I want to browse through the package contents to make sure that all the scripts are copied fine. Earlier there was a menu item for .pkg file "Show package contents" which was useful for this. But if I change the target platform of package to leopard onwards, this menu item is no longer available. Can anyone help me to figure out how i can see the contents of a .pkg file now ? thanks for help in advance. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: How to see the package contents on snow leopard.
by Chris Verwymeren 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com >From the Terminal, you can use the 'xar' utility to list the package contents. On 2010-02-01, at 11:19 PM, Dan Ribe wrote: > Hi All, > > I am creating a installer package with some preinstall & postinstall scripts. I want to browse through the package contents to make sure that all the scripts are copied fine. Earlier there was a menu item for .pkg file "Show package contents" which was useful for this. But if I change the target platform of package to leopard onwards, this menu item is no longer available. > > Can anyone help me to figure out how i can see the contents of a .pkg file now ? thanks for help in advance. > > Cheers! > Dan > _______________________________________________ > 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/cverwymeren%40me.com > > This email sent to cverwymeren(a)me.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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