February 2010 - Installer-dev

Dynamic file list when generating pkg ?
by Fred / Kettch 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

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Where should scripts be put in a flat distribution?
by Iceberg-Dev 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

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Re: Different "Quit App" behavior between PackageMaker.app and cmd line
by Iceberg-Dev 21 Feb '10

21 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=PEj2Qf7qwL/WMxahrPWPdoBeKmNgeq08ymQtRqynC+4=; b=KjyMMIn4OHjD6kJh1gcpUef73FRT7ZUtz/3wJvDZqX6fAruPbq2WihkHL4c19/JHDi Yf3bI19Sez5SSCPJDwb8T98UFd1b+eEd8+gqC+K7sS3ky8DA978L35NtSZzAT+23U0Vy sP+moYTEpxpiGmXmksJ7o1oCnGbbffO9P6ml0= 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=QAKNnEP+4uB/17pVI2XXW3LqiaccOGZELUu+9f5824uPnuWF/I10/aao7fG7FQR/1Z 36NTjQxfgji9wjDKEBHJdnkA8Bs5xkXn861dLwpr2vRH+QoJUNkXc+ZBlWUnFbQQVHmK C57VZLjzVRvbkx0cul6NY05sF6fMpK361h424= On Feb 21, 2010, at 8:42 PM, Matt Ronge wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 3:08 AM, Matt Ronge wrote: Hi, _______________________________________________ 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'm having a strange problem with PackageMaker. My installer makes sure an app (Mail in this case) is not running, and if it does, quits it. I used the Actions tab of PackageMaker to build this action. It is a "Get App" attached to a "Quit App". Now here is where it gets strange... If build the installer with PackageMaker.app, it works great. If Mail is running it quits it and proceeds with with installation. HOWEVER if I build the installer with the command line tool /Developer/usr/bin/ packagemaker, it installs but it WON'T quit Mail if it's running. It just leaves it running and does the install anyway. Why the difference in behavior? I use this to build on the cmd line: "/Developer/usr/bin/packagemaker -d installer/ myinstaller.pmdoc -o build/MyInstaller.pkg" Have you checked if there's any difference between the package you get when you use the UI and the one you get when you use the command line? I extracted the contents of both packages using Pacifist. The one built using the UI has a preflight.pkg inside of it, while the command line one doesn't. So they are very clearly different. Has anyone seen this before? The xxxxpreflight.pkg package is a trick. Basically, it's an empty payload package with the postinstall actions. Maybe a possible workaround would be to use the postinstall option in the Scripts tab of the package settings. You can always extract the scripts used by PackageMaker for the actions (Pacifist is the easiest solution for this). This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Different "Quit App" behavior between PackageMaker.app and cmd line
by Matt Ronge 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2010, at 3:08 AM, Matt Ronge wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm having a strange problem with PackageMaker. My installer makes sure an app (Mail in this case) is not running, and if it does, quits it. I used the Actions tab of PackageMaker to build this action. It is a "Get App" attached to a "Quit App". >> >> Now here is where it gets strange... If build the installer with PackageMaker.app, it works great. If Mail is running it quits it and proceeds with with installation. HOWEVER if I build the installer with the command line tool /Developer/usr/bin/packagemaker, it installs but it WON'T quit Mail if it's running. It just leaves it running and does the install anyway. >> >> Why the difference in behavior? I use this to build on the cmd line: "/Developer/usr/bin/packagemaker -d installer/myinstaller.pmdoc -o build/MyInstaller.pkg" > > Have you checked if there's any difference between the package you get when you use the UI and the one you get when you use the command line? I extracted the contents of both packages using Pacifist. The one built using the UI has a preflight.pkg inside of it, while the command line one doesn't. So they are very clearly different. Has anyone seen this before? -- Matt Ronge Founder Central Atomics Makers of Rocketbox! http://www.getrocketbox.com mronge(a)centralatomics.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 Iceberg-Dev 20 Feb '10

20 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=5PtA/8z3FPhCX0JOU8qLEPFAGW4nqbEJNFg+4Yd93uE=; b=UyHhAfPq1+kfI8hhsYIleu2iB2i+4CbiWgd2hFcLDDs0GnfRg4dWNukySjtmO+xsGk c6oaq52qf4anJ1MPS3igofufuBTg4XvJVplG39JGCTHxDlHc3l6LeHKlReWcsdMe1u0s WcsdelyazFbcDRmgi7sEP+RfxinlvSqjTJQcc= 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=gccH3FchQeQ9Y0X24WHWMZHVr3xSI5jzhEwWQ2eD+rSOoSQnjwIKq5YWDzQbIV7OQ2 8UIKoT6wIgvni/esBJK6OFn8+cWhfWOiCv3PI6xRKzVKOnSQUFQRYgbfb3QviyoRWk5p IHHs1PltrOPREEaFG1So7wpZHl4KKFBaWYgG0= On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:46 AM, sakshi wrote: As far as I've tested them, they don't. _______________________________________________ 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 hadn't heard of these before so I tried searching for locators and found a site which referred to locator definitions. Unfortunately it seems to refer to an older UI and I can't find anything similar in PM 3.0.4. Would you have any more details on locators? In PackageMaker, in the Components pane, you can define them by clicking on the Relocation… button. Basically, it used to be possible to just create the skeleton of a bundle (the Contents/Resources/ Info.plist hierarchy) and then you could apply a search locator for this fake bundle. You just then needed to add the additional files in the bundle hierarchy in the payload. I don't see why that wouldn't work anymore. Would they work across volumes? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: DMG with EULA
by Eli Bach 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

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DMG with EULA
by JT Burgess 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

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Re: Bugs, Certificates, PackageMaker and Installer
by Jonathon Kuo 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: > >> numerous bugs in PackageMaker > > Noooo! Really? > > I'm sure there are myriad Radars against PackageMaker, but maybe if the filers (especially the ones at Apple) appended to the reports the total number of hours lost to PackageMaker bugs, that may help make the business case that Apple likes to see on requests. > > But for all I know, people have been doing this all along. It's very discouraging. I too would love to see a total re-do of PackageMaker, along the lines of Quartz Composer. That would be an awesome, flexible approach! Just my 2 cents... -Jon _______________________________________________ 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: Bugs, Certificates, PackageMaker and Installer
by Fritz Anderson 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: > numerous bugs in PackageMaker Noooo! Really? I'm sure there are myriad Radars against PackageMaker, but maybe if the filers (especially the ones at Apple) appended to the reports the total number of hours lost to PackageMaker bugs, that may help make the business case that Apple likes to see on requests. But for all I know, people have been doing this all along. It's very discouraging. — F _______________________________________________ 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 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

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