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

Ugh, PackageMaker woes.
by G S 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

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Re: Installer runs, but doesn't install anything
by Jon Hodgson 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

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Re: Installer runs, but doesn't install anything
by Xochitl Lunde 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

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Re: Installer runs, but doesn't install anything
by David Buxton 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On 7 Jun 2010, at 20:23, Jon Hodgson wrote: > yeah, I'm not seeing anything giving me a clue there either > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Paul Sanders <p.sanders(a)alpinesoft.co.uk> wrote: >>> I can't see any likely messages in the log, and anyway I just tried it >>> on a machine which hasn't got a copy of it anywhere... and when I've >>> finished, there isn't a copy of it anywhere. >> >> I thought Xochitl Lunde's suggestion sounded good in that case: run the >> installer from the command line in verbose mode. It doesn't though, I >> notice, tell you what files it is copying when you do this (!). watchedinstall can show you what paths an installer touches. http://bitbucket.org/davidbuxton/watchedinstall/ You can use it to install the package and at the end it will list all paths that the installer touched (either files copied from the payload or installation scripts). You need to download the current release and either run the setup script or just run it from the current directory. Here's an example of downloading it and running it using Terminal.app: curl -O http://bitbucket.org/davidbuxton/watchedinstall/downloads/watchedinstall-1.… tar -xzvf watchedinstall-1.1.tar.gz cd watchedinstall-1.1 export PATH=$(pwd):${PATH} sudo ./watchedinstall.py --verbose /path/to/your/install.pkg David -- David Buxton 4 Tasman House Home 020-7680-9310 Clegg Street Mobile 07905-645025 London E1W 3NL Email david(a)gasmark6.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: Installer runs, but doesn't install anything
by Xochitl Lunde 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '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 06/07/2010 03:56:19 PM: > > I can only think of a couple other things then, which are probably long shots. > > 1. I noted the command line installer on Leopard and Snow Leopard > output slightly different information when -dumplog and -verbose is > on. Maybe if one doesn't tell you, the other will? > 2. There's a setting where you can overwrite the existing folder or > not. So something like if your base directory already exists, you > would overwrite it. This is bad if your base directory is > /Library/StartupItems or something similar where you don't want to > overwrite the base directory. Maybe you're off by one on your base > directory setting or don't have that "overwrite" setting correct. > 3. Does your package have multiple "choices" ? I don't think it > does because you have said that it's just a regular package. I > wondered if maybe you had 1 choice that overwrote the other somehow? >

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Re: Installer runs, but doesn't install anything
by Xochitl Lunde 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '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 06/07/2010 02:23:31 PM: > yeah, I'm not seeing anything giving me a clue there either > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Paul Sanders <p.sanders@alpinesoft. > co.uk> wrote: > >> I can't see any likely messages in the log, and anyway I just tried it > >> on a machine which hasn't got a copy of it anywhere... and when I've > >> finished, there isn't a copy of it anywhere. > > > > I thought Xochitl Lunde's suggestion sounded good in that case: run the > > installer from the command line in verbose mode. It doesn't though, I > > notice, tell you what files it is copying when you do this (!). > > > > Regards, > > > > Paul Sanders. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/xochitl_lunde% > 40tripplite.com > > This email sent to xochitl_lunde(a)tripplite.com >

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Re: Installer runs, but doesn't install anything
by Jon Hodgson 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

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Re: Installer runs, but doesn't install anything
by Jon Hodgson 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

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Re: Installer runs, but doesn't install anything
by Paul Sanders 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

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Re: Installer runs, but doesn't install anything
by Nick Peelman 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

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