August 2010 - Installer-dev

Re: Could not copy root to split forks
by Adam Mercer 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

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Re: Could not copy root to split forks
by Cates jr, Christopher 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com -Chris On Aug 17, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Adam Mercer wrote: Hi In trying to build a installer for the latest version of a project, its failing with the error "Could not copy root to split forks." As far as I can tell from googling this could be due to some permissions problem. I've applied the recommended permissions for each component of the package but it still fails with the same error. How can I find out what is causing this error? Cheers Adam _______________________________________________ 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/chc004%40shsu.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.… Try looking in the install.log in the console. It should have more details that will help pin down where the problem is occuring. This email sent to chc004(a)shsu.edu This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Could not copy root to split forks
by Adam Mercer 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

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Re: Cant replace the executable for auto upgradation when its executing
by Bill Coderre 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Aug 17, 2010, at 6:35 AM, mak4mac wrote: > I m creating an auto installer/upgradation for my project. > When the app is executing, i cant replace the latest(updated) executable from my server as it is locked for execution. > Ideas to do this would be appreciable. There are two common solutions: 1) If it's an application, present an error to the user. This IS the standard behavior, but is not in Installer.app at this time. I know it sounds lame, but it's really the best choice, because the user might have unsaved changes, etc, etc. 2) If it's a daemon/unix process, it might be OK to quit/kill the process, update it, and restart it. If so, do that. It might even be OK to replace the binary, then restart the process. Many unix executables are 100% loaded into memory during execution, and therefore it's just fine to change the binary out from under the process. Note that Mac OS X applications should not be updated while running, because they are not 100% in memory. A particular example is that if you change NIBs and the old binary is still running, the app might crash, or menu items might stop working. _______________________________________________ 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: Cant replace the executable for auto upgradation when its executing
by Stephane Sudre 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

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Cant replace the executable for auto upgradation when its executing
by mak4mac 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

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Re: Permissions checks when installing a daemon
by Stephane Sudre 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

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Permissions checks when installing a daemon
by Monte Benaresh 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello All, One of our installers installs a daemon to /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/. I have written a bash script to enforce the security recommendations in TN2083, which says that this directory, and all of its parents, must have certain permissions and must be owned by "root" in order to prevent an unauthorized process from substituting their own daemon in place of ours. Our problem is, one of our Beta users has "/" owned by "_spotlight", and so we fail to install due to the security checks in our preflight script as alluded to above. Disk Utility does not repair this problem. We are concerned that this will be a support issue, so our questions are: 1. Can we securely allow "/" to be owned by other than "root"? 2. Is it permissible for us to change the owner of "/" to "root"? 3. If either /Library/ or Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/ is not owned by "root" is it permissible for us to change the owner to "root"? Many Thanks, Monte Benaresh PACE Anti-Piracy _______________________________________________ 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: Why is my installer not installing files
by jon.lott＠mac.com 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com I have checked the built package and in the info.plist there is a flag called something like AllowRelocation. Is this what you are referring to? If so, then I checked and these were set to false for all of the packages in the meta package. On Aug 7, 2010, at 6:03 AM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: > This could be the usual relocate by default issue of PackageMaker if you are installing a bundle. > > Check the Components pane of your packages or check the list archives. > > On Aug 7, 2010, at 5:27 AM, jon.lott(a)mac.com wrote: > >> I have a question about running the installer in 10.6.4. What are the possible reasons why running the installer via command line returns success even though it did not install any of the files or it would partially install some files. I am creating and installing an mpkg file. >> >> >> Note that I don't see this happening everytime I test the installer. The steps I do is run my uninstaller tool which deletes files and also removes receipts files, then I run the installer. These steps are successful in installing the files correctly for the first few attempts, but then it will fail sometimes to install the files but still return success. >> >> >> I have the install log files available by request. >> >> Can someone please shed some light on this. > > > _______________________________________________ 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: Why is my installer not installing files
by Iceberg-Dev 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

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