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Re: Packages output ownership
by Kevin Molcard 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

On 6/21/12 6:11 PM, Greg Neagle wrote: On Jun 21, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Kevin Molcard wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with a Packages project. On my computer when I build it using command line, it creates a pkg with the following ownership/permissions: owner: <my_user> group: staff permissions :-rw-r--r-- On the build server the owner is root. I can not find any setting in Packages that allows to change this. Does anyone have any idea about what could be the problem? Can I ask what might be an obvious question? Are you running the build command as <my_user> on your computer, and as root on the "build server"? -Greg I should have said that on my previous mail but of course no. Kevin Thanks in advance. Kevin -- Kevin Molcard Sofware Engineer -- 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/site_archiver%40lists… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Packages output ownership
by Greg Neagle 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

On Jun 21, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Kevin Molcard wrote: > Hi all, > I have a problem with a Packages project. > On my computer when I build it using command line, it creates a pkg with the following ownership/permissions: > > owner: <my_user> > group: staff > permissions :-rw-r--r-- > > On the build server the owner is root. > > I can not find any setting in Packages that allows to change this. > > Does anyone have any idea about what could be the problem? Can I ask what might be an obvious question? Are you running the build command as <my_user> on your computer, and as root on the "build server"? -Greg > > Thanks in advance. > Kevin > -- > Kevin Molcard > Sofware Engineer _______________________________________________ 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: How to access resources in flat distribution package
by Don Montalvo 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

Khushneet...please let us know where we can send you ether beer for this golden nugget! :D Don Khushneet Inder Singh wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > What you can do is first expand the FLAT package using pkgutil --expand FlatPackage ExpandedPackage. After expanding the package you can manipulate /access package contents. Once done with manipulations and changes you can flatten back the expanded package by using pkgutil --flatten ExpandedPackage ChangedFlatPackage. > > Regards, > Khushneet _______________________________________________ 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: How to access resources in flat distribution package
by Kevin Molcard 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

I found the solution. In Packages, you can add resources in two different levels. I don't understand how I could have miss it. Thanks all for your help Kevin On 6/21/12 4:52 PM, Vikram Singh wrote: Hi Kevin, CUR_PATH=`dirname "$0"` Now, you can access your resource by "$CUR_PATH/your_resource" Hope this will solve your problem :) Note: This temporary location gets deleted at the end of installation. Thanks, Vikram Hi Kushneet, thanks for the tip. Actually, I found this trick after posting to the list. I am still wondering if there is another solution because it could take some time on big packages. Kevin On 6/21/12 4:03 PM, Khushneet Inder Singh wrote: Hi Kevin, What you can do is first expand the FLAT package using pkgutil --expand FlatPackage ExpandedPackage. After expanding the package you can manipulate /access package contents. Once done with manipulations and changes you can flatten back the expanded package by using pkgutil --flatten ExpandedPackage ChangedFlatPackage. Regards, Khushneet -----Original Message----- From: installer-dev-bounces+ksingh=quark.com(a)lists.apple.com <mailto:quark.com@lists.apple.com> [mailto:installer-dev-bounces+ksingh <mailto:installer-dev-bounces%2Bksingh>=quark.com(a)lists.apple.com <mailto:quark.com@lists.apple.com>] On Behalf Of Kevin Molcard Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 3:20 PM To: Installer-Dev mailing-list Subject: How to access resources in flat distribution package 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 <mailto:Installer-dev@lists.apple.com>) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/ksingh%40quark.com This email sent to ksingh(a)quark.com <mailto:ksingh@quark.com> 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 <mailto:Installer-dev@lists.apple.com>) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/vikram731%40gmail.com This email sent to vikram731(a)gmail.com <mailto:vikram731@gmail.com> -- 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/site_archiver%40lists… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com You can either place them at the Project level (the place where I was putting them) or at the Package script level (the place where I should put them). Another solution is to keep your resource files with your scripts while building the package. When you run the installer, all these files are copied to temporary location and then the preinstall/postinstall script is run. Then, whatever resources you are accessing from your script are now in the same directory as your scripts. So you can access them by getting the path of the current script as follows- On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Kevin Molcard <kevin.molcard(a)arturia.com <mailto:kevin.molcard@arturia.com>> wrote: -- Kevin Molcard

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Packages output ownership
by Kevin Molcard 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

Hi all, I have a problem with a Packages project. owner: <my_user> group: staff permissions :-rw-r--r-- On the build server the owner is root. I can not find any setting in Packages that allows to change this. Does anyone have any idea about what could be the problem? 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/site_archiver%40lists… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com On my computer when I build it using command line, it creates a pkg with the following ownership/permissions:

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Re: How to access resources in flat distribution package
by Vikram Singh 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

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Re: How to access resources in flat distribution package
by Kevin Molcard 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

The installer will run on the user computer so this is not an option :). Kevin On 6/21/12 4:42 PM, Joshua Levitsky wrote: -- Joshua Levitsky On Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Kevin Molcard wrote: Hi Kushneet, thanks for the tip. Actually, I found this trick after posting to the list. I am still wondering if there is another solution because it could take some time on big packages. Kevin On 6/21/12 4:03 PM, Khushneet Inder Singh wrote: Hi Kevin, What you can do is first expand the FLAT package using pkgutil --expand FlatPackage ExpandedPackage. After expanding the package you can manipulate /access package contents. Once done with manipulations and changes you can flatten back the expanded package by using pkgutil --flatten ExpandedPackage ChangedFlatPackage. Regards, Khushneet -----Original Message----- Behalf Of Kevin Molcard Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 3:20 PM To: Installer-Dev mailing-list Subject: How to access resources in flat distribution package 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. Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/ksingh%40quark.com This email sent to ksingh(a)quark.com <mailto:ksingh@quark.com> -- 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. Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/jlevitsk%40joshie.com This email sent to jlevitsk(a)joshie.com <mailto:jlevitsk@joshie.com> -- 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/site_archiver%40lists… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com I know this costs $, but I use SSD instead of standard disks on my machines that build packages and OS images. I have a few processes that went from 4 hours down to 20 minutes simply by doing that. From: installer-dev-bounces+ksingh=quark.com(a)lists.apple.com <mailto:quark.com@lists.apple.com> [mailto:installer-dev-bounces+ksingh=quark.com@lists.apple.com <mailto:quark.com@lists.apple.com>] On Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com <mailto:Installer-dev@lists.apple.com>) Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com <mailto:Installer-dev@lists.apple.com>)

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Re: How to access resources in flat distribution package
by Joshua Levitsky 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

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Re: How to access resources in flat distribution package
by Kevin Molcard 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

Hi Kushneet, thanks for the tip. Actually, I found this trick after posting to the list. Kevin On 6/21/12 4:03 PM, Khushneet Inder Singh wrote: Hi Kevin, What you can do is first expand the FLAT package using pkgutil --expand FlatPackage ExpandedPackage. After expanding the package you can manipulate /access package contents. Once done with manipulations and changes you can flatten back the expanded package by using pkgutil --flatten ExpandedPackage ChangedFlatPackage. Regards, Khushneet -----Original Message----- From: installer-dev-bounces+ksingh=quark.com(a)lists.apple.com [mailto:installer-dev-bounces+ksingh=quark.com@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Molcard Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 3:20 PM To: Installer-Dev mailing-list Subject: How to access resources in flat distribution package 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/ksingh%40quark.com This email sent to ksingh(a)quark.com -- 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/site_archiver%40lists… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com I am still wondering if there is another solution because it could take some time on big packages.

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RE: How to access resources in flat distribution package
by Khushneet Inder Singh 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

Hi Kevin, What you can do is first expand the FLAT package using pkgutil --expand FlatPackage ExpandedPackage. After expanding the package you can manipulate /access package contents. Once done with manipulations and changes you can flatten back the expanded package by using pkgutil --flatten ExpandedPackage ChangedFlatPackage. Regards, Khushneet -----Original Message----- From: installer-dev-bounces+ksingh=quark.com(a)lists.apple.com [mailto:installer-dev-bounces+ksingh=quark.com@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Molcard Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 3:20 PM To: Installer-Dev mailing-list Subject: How to access resources in flat distribution package 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/ksingh%40quark.com This email sent to ksingh(a)quark.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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