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Getting Installation failure error while using Script along with custom requirements.
by vishnu kulkarni 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

Hi All, I'm trying to package firefox app with preflight script to kill the app and trash the app before installing a fresh copy. The script works pretty fine with the package. When I try to add system requirements to the package it gets failed. I'm pretty new to packaging . Below are my queries. Please address 1) When I include minimum available hard disk bytes on target , It creates a Distribution.dist file inside the package. ( Not sure of the reason.) 2) When I include memory requirement and include the preflight script it works fine. ( For memory it does not create a .dist file) I have pasted the details of the .dist file below. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> <installer-script minSpecVersion="1.000000" authoringTool="com.apple.PackageMaker" authoringToolVersion="3.0.4" authoringToolBuild="179"> <title>Firefox</title> <options customize="never" allow-external-scripts="no" rootVolumeOnly="true"/> <installation-check script="pm_install_check();"/> <volume-check script="pm_volume_check();"/> <script>function pm_volume_check() { if(!(my.target.availableKilobytes >= 200 * 1024 * 1024)) { my.result.title = 'Failure'; my.result.message = 'Installation cannot proceed, as not all requirements were met.'; my.result.type = 'Fatal'; return false; } return true; } function pm_install_check() { if(!(system.sysctl('hw.memsize') >= 512*1024*1024*1024)) { my.result.title = 'Memory Available'; my.result.message = 'Installation cannot proceed, as not all requirements were met.'; my.result.type = 'Fatal'; return false; } return true; } </script> <choices-outline> <line choice="choice3"/> </choices-outline> <choice id="choice3" title="Firefox"> <pkg-ref id="com.wb.firefox.Firefox.pkg"/> </choice> <pkg-ref id="com.wb.firefox.Firefox.pkg" installKBytes="75808" version="1.0" auth="Root">file:./Contents/Packages/firefox.pkg</pkg-ref> <pkg-ref id="com.wb.firefox.Firefox.pkg"> <relocate search-id="pkmktoken81"> <bundle id="org.mozilla.firefox"/> </relocate> </pkg-ref> <locator> <search id="pkmktoken81-1" type="component"> <bundle CFBundleIdentifier="org.mozilla.firefox" path="/Applications/Firefox.app"/> </search> <search id="pkmktoken81-0" type="script" script="pkmktoken81_combined()"> <script> function pkmktoken81_combined() { function pkmk_add_results_to_array(results, array) { for(i = 0; i < results.length; i++) array.push(results[i]); } var result = new Array(); var search; search = my.search.results['pkmktoken81-1']; if(search) pkmk_add_results_to_array(search, result); return result; } </script> </search> <search type="script" id="pkmktoken81" script="pkmktoken81_final()"> <script> function pkmktoken81_final() { var combined = my.search.results['pkmktoken81-0']; return combined; } </script> </search> </locator> </installer-script> Please do let me know where I'm going wrong. I tried to modify the .dist fie but to no avail. Thanks, Vishnu _______________________________________________ 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: https://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: select language for the installer
by Stephane Sudre 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Nick <eveningnick(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > I am using a Packages installer. I am wondering, if it's possible > somehow to let the user select the language for the installer itself > and the application that is being installed, from the installer? Like > it is done in most installers in Windows. The short answer is: no, because this is not Windows. The detailed answer is: no and yes. o The Installer applications runs in the preferred language of the current user. So if you want to support multiple languages from within the installer, you just need to include the appropriate localized resources: e.g. EULA, ReadMe, choice descriptions, etc. In addition to that, if you provide localized EULAs, the end-user will be able to select the most appropriate language from a popup button. o The same is true for applications that have been installed. The idea is to provide a single application that includes all the available localizations. Then the language the application will be run in is determined by the preferred languages of the user. Now, if you really want to limit the languages supported by an application to one (or a few), a solution is to create one package for the non-localized items of your installation and then one package for each language you which to support that will include the appropriate localized items. I would recommended to embed at least one localization in the first package (English preferably). Then 2 solutions: ( 1 ) you let the user decide which additional languages to install using the custom install mode of the installer (this is how the Mac OS X installer used to work). or ( 2 ) you code a plugin that lets the user decide and then do some tricky checks either in JavaScript in the distribution or from the pre- or post-installation scripts of each localization package. The JavaScript solution may not work as expected in a lot of cases. The pre-/post-installation script solutions is really ugly. ( 1 ) is of course a better solution. The best solution being to install all localizations. _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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select language for the installer
by Nick 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

Hi I am using a Packages installer. I am wondering, if it's possible somehow to let the user select the language for the installer itself and the application that is being installed, from the installer? Like it is done in most installers in Windows. Thank you.. _______________________________________________ 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: https://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: Packagemaker command line options
by Mitchell Laurren-Ring 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

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Re: Packagemaker command line options
by Bill Coderre 23 Jun '12

23 Jun '12

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Re: Packagemaker command line options
by Vikram Singh 23 Jun '12

23 Jun '12

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Re: Packagemaker command line options
by Mitchell Laurren-Ring 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

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Re: Installer Behaviour for Exisitng app when new version is pushed
by Stephane Sudre 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

AFAIK, it depends on the kind of the file system object. If a folder or a folder from the payload already exist on disk and the overwrite permissions flag is not set, then the permissions are not changed. If a folder or a folder from the payload already exist on disk and the overwrite permissions flag is set, then the permissions of the folder are changed, the permissions of the file are not changed. In most cases, you don't want to overwrite permissions. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Karthikeyan M <karthikeyan.mac(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We have Microsoft Office 2011 14.1.4 installed on a system. We are now > pushing the snapshot 14.2.0 package. All the application permission in new > package is set to root:wheel. > > Installing the new package on existing version of office upgrades to 14.2.0 > but the permission remains as root:admin even though the package app files > are set to root:wheel. > > > Does the installer replaces the .app with permission or just appends the > data inside .app? > > Regards, > Karthikeyan > > _______________________________________________ > 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: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/dev.iceberg%40gmail.c… > > This email sent to dev.iceberg(a)gmail.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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Installer Behaviour for Exisitng app when new version is pushed
by Karthikeyan M 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

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Re: How to access resources in flat distribution package
by Stephane Sudre 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

If you need to access something inside the Resources folder of a flat package from the pre- or post-installation of this package, they are at the same level as your script when it's running (because the resources are extracted during installation). So ./your_file is the path you can use. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Kevin Molcard <kevin.molcard(a)arturia.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to convert my package to flat distribution to be able to sign it > using productsign. > I am using Packages to build my package. > I have some resources that I have to access in my postflight script. > In bundle format I used this: > > ROOT_PATH=`sudo dirname "$1"` > RESOURCES_PATH="$ROOT_PATH/../Resources/" > > This seems to not work with flat packages. > Does anyone know how to access these resources? > > Thanks in advance. > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Molcard > Sofware Engineer > > ARTURIA > 4 chemin de Malacher > 38240 Meylan - France > Tel: +33 438 020 555 > Fax: +33 438 020 525 > > http://www.arturia.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: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/dev.iceberg%40gmail.c… > > This email sent to dev.iceberg(a)gmail.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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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