March 2010 - Installer-dev - lists.apple.com

Buggy localization support in Installer.app when it comes to EULA
by Iceberg-Dev 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

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Can Installer.app download things?
by Paul Sanders 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

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Re: "Common" post-install script
by Iceberg-Dev 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '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=rPHwWF8c/VwKX35QSC8jBUsP8EGqDt7YWEWThlgCXDY=; b=gH5Xfy136VTblkDcQX1DtY3NDoEuzh+SWlCBZf/Reh/hiM6FdhtTXsBKpKxJ9TRmoF d/tN8ymB2rP62Okeee7aCb7OZ1awSzR4Zt831ctqDh17SsvX0IaJRJnRlZU31igP1wcc sNHnCaBJ7eYPWzAif6yMXlR6ZXXZnoUbD3FiM= 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=f1OV6Y8KzwG41q+g+J8IRxivRupdDOYsA0h5a2ZqZUtoF10BQW0Ep17WaR/hjuOSeT NQ7/fI56jrAJyLdQUX4Ej9T0zGpJeOxZJxg0NGTYdteHtbCfWGiqRfBwSNGFhtVlqYfn m7+iGALj7mhD3Yyu9Eogpj+4F/ebrnFtaCTks= On Mar 22, 2010, at 8:46 PM, Rustam Muginov 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.… Hello all. I am building installer for 10.5 and later. I do need a "common" post-install script, which would run after all components are installed. Currently, i can see options to assign preinstall/postinstall script for a particular component, but for whole distribution where are only "Actions" with the fixed list like "Create Alias", "Load Kernel Extension", e.t.c. How could i add a script which would guaranteed to run after all components have been installed? A solution (which is the one PackageMaker uses for its distribution pre/post actions) is to have a package that contains an empty payload (i.e. no files are being installed) and a postinstall script. This package needs to be placed as the last package of the packages list and its visible flag should be set to false. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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"Common" post-install script
by Rustam Muginov 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

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Re: package maker
by Xochitl Lunde 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.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 <installer-dev-bounces+xochitl_lunde=tripplite.com(a)lists.apple.com> wrote on 03/22/2010 12:22:49 AM: > Hi, > I am currently using PackageMaker 3.0.4 on Snow Leopard to build > my package.I want to know how to ask the user to quit an application > before proceeding for install if that application is already > running. Basically, I want to know how the user can be prompted to > quit the application if it is running and then proceeding further in > installation like other applications on MAC.Any help on this matter > will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Spondita > On the requirements pane of any choice or a distribution package, you can add a requirement using the '+' button. You could choose 'Result of Script' for the 'If' parameter, and write a script to check for the process running. I've never done this myself, but that is where it appears that the interface for doing so is. You can also go to a distribution's 'Actions' menu and use a "Get Application" and "Kill Application", but in my experience that doesn't warn a user that the application is being killed. What you probably want most is a way to get the InstallationCheck script working so that you can provide a nice error message back to a user (which I have just learned is supported only from InstallationCheck and VolumeCheck scripts). I don't know how to do this using PackageMaker, but Nick Peelman has a page that talks about the InstallationCheck script and has a demo that uses Iceberg.

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package maker
by spondita Madhuri Neog 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

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Re: What kind of certificates to use for packages?
by Iceberg-Dev 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

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Re: What kind of certificates to use for packages?
by Rustam Muginov 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

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What kind of certificates to use for packages?
by Iceberg-Dev 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

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Re: Launch agent runs as root immediately after install
by Iceberg-Dev 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

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