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

Re: pkgutil shows receipt not found on 10.5 Mac OS
by Iceberg-Dev 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

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Re: Creation of symbolic link fails by installer
by Karl Kuehn 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Jun 30, 2010, at 10:13 AM, kushal ghosh wrote: > I am creating two links say /tmp/folder1->application and /tmp/folder2->application. Both points to same location. But they are different links. But 'application' is same in both case. Could it be possible that simultaneous installation (or upgrade) to same location ('application' in this case) is not possible? I wonder if the whole link bit is a red herring. I know that the GUI installer queues installs one after another, so that no two are ever running at the same time. I know it is possible to run multiple at the same time by using the command-line version, but maybe the GUI limitation is protecting us from ourselves in a way that the command line installer does not, and you are seeing the result of shooting yourself in the foot this way. A guess is that things might be getting tangled in the part where it calls out to the com.apple.installd helper (in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons), but that is a wild, out of the blue, guess. -- Karl Kuehn larkost(a)softhome.net _______________________________________________ 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: Creation of symbolic link fails by installer
by kushal ghosh 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

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Re: pkgutil shows receipt not found on 10.5 Mac OS
by Sachin Porwal 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

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Re: pkgutil shows receipt not found on 10.5 Mac OS
by Iceberg-Dev 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

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Re: pkgutil shows receipt not found on 10.5 Mac OS
by Sachin Porwal 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

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Re: pkgutil shows receipt not found on 10.5 Mac OS
by G S 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

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Re: Creation of symbolic link fails by installer
by Iceberg-Dev 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

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Creation of symbolic link fails by installer
by kushal ghosh 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

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Re: installer plugin
by Sanjay Rao 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

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