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Re: Flat Packages, Gatekeeper, and Resources
by Stephane Sudre 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Bill Coderre <bc(a)apple.com> wrote: > So bundle packages are still supported, but: flat packages are "THE FUTURE". > (Flat packages are supported back to 10.4.0.) Do you mean 10.5? _______________________________________________ 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: productsign [update]
by Dallas Jones 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Don't forget that you can just drag a file into the terminal window and OS X will pop the full path into your command line. That's a lot easier than remembering to escape those spaces and other special characters... -----Original Message----- > input-product-path and output-product-path mean THE FULL PATH! _______________________________________________ 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: Flat Packages, Gatekeeper, and Resources
by Bill Coderre 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

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Re: productsign [update]
by koko 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Ok, is this crazy …. productsign [options] --sign identity input-product-path output-product-path input-product-path and output-product-path mean THE FULL PATH! My gosh you cannot CD to the dir containing the .pkg and run the command go figure -koko On Jul 31, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Philip Lukidis wrote: > Hello, > Do you use quotes around your identity? The identity comes from your installer certificate. Just open keychain, double click on your installer certificate, and copy the "Common Name" string. Could you post the full command and response? > Philip Lukidis > > -----Original Message----- > From: installer-dev-bounces+plukidis=guillemot.com(a)lists.apple.com [mailto:installer-dev-bounces+plukidis=guillemot.com@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of koko > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:36 PM > To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com > Subject: productsign [update] > > update: > > I just realized that input and output paths cannot be the same so now I use: > > productsign --sign "Developer ID Installer" EmbroideryWorks.pkg EmbroideryWorksSigned.pkg > > and still get the usage error > > This makes me think the error is in the identity … so how is the identity specified? > > -koko > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/plukidis%40guillemot.… > > This email sent to plukidis(a)guillemot.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: productsign [update]
by koko 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Ok, is this crazy …. productsign [options] --sign identity input-product-path output-product-path input-product-path and output-product-path mean THE FULL PATH! My gosh you cannot CD to the dir containing the .pkg and run the command go figure -koko On Jul 31, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Philip Lukidis wrote: > Hello, > Do you use quotes around your identity? The identity comes from your installer certificate. Just open keychain, double click on your installer certificate, and copy the "Common Name" string. Could you post the full command and response? > Philip Lukidis > > -----Original Message----- > From: installer-dev-bounces+plukidis=guillemot.com(a)lists.apple.com [mailto:installer-dev-bounces+plukidis=guillemot.com@lists.apple.com] On Behalf Of koko > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:36 PM > To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com > Subject: productsign [update] > > update: > > I just realized that input and output paths cannot be the same so now I use: > > productsign --sign "Developer ID Installer" EmbroideryWorks.pkg EmbroideryWorksSigned.pkg > > and still get the usage error > > This makes me think the error is in the identity … so how is the identity specified? > > -koko > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/plukidis%40guillemot.… > > This email sent to plukidis(a)guillemot.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: Flat Packages, Gatekeeper, and Resources
by Philip Lukidis 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Hello, Thank you for that bit of insight. I suppose then I could use xar to insert an xar compressed Scripts archive at the appropriate level, and then compress it again via xar. When I have some time I will try this out. Thank you, Philip Lukidis -----Original Message----- From: Stephane Sudre [mailto:dev.iceberg@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 5:33 PM To: Julian Devlin Cc: Philip Lukidis; Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Flat Packages, Gatekeeper, and Resources [Philip Lukidis] [snip] InstallationCheck in distribution are usually achieved through JavaScript. That being said, there's a JavaScript API to run a shell script (or executable). The difficult part (at least with PackageMaker) is to embed the shell script or executable into the flat distribution. This requires to expand the flat distribution and then flatten it. The script or executable needs to be in a Scripts archive at the same level as the Resources folder. -- Packaging Resources - http://s.sudre.free.fr/Packaging.html _______________________________________________ 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: Flat Packages, Gatekeeper, and Resources
by Stephane Sudre 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Philip Lukidis <plukidis(a)guillemot.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > > Based on what I read here, perhaps it is indeed impossible to do an > InstallationCheck which uses a compiled program in the flat package world > (indeed so far I cannot get it done even with a script during the > InstallationCheck phase): It's possible. It's just that when you use PackageMaker or productbuild or pkgbuild, it requires additional work. _______________________________________________ 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: Customize or suppress the Installation Type pane
by Stephane Sudre 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

No changes. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Lora Lozano <lora_lozano(a)filemaker.com> wrote: > I know it's been a long time since the last post in this thread, but I'd like to know if anything has changed in Apple Installer that would allow customization or suppression of the Installation Type pane. […] _______________________________________________ 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: Flat Packages, Gatekeeper, and Resources
by Philip Lukidis 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

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Re: Flat Packages, Gatekeeper, and Resources
by Stephane Sudre 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Julian Devlin <juliand(a)sassafras.com> wrote: > With the distribution selected on the left, check the "Requirements" tab in > the middle of the screen, click + at the bottom. > > As far as localizing the messages... I would guess that if there's an > appropriate file in the Resources directory, it will be used. > > Generally, if you produce a flat package with the UI, you can then modify > the files it contains as follows... > 1. cd into an empty directory > 2. xar -xf /path/to/flat.pkg > 3. look at the files now present in the directory, modify them as you wish > 4. xar --compression none -cf /newpath/to/flat.pkg . > > I would guess that you may be able to find some Apple package that uses an > Installation Check with localized strings in order to determine the proper > format... > > > If anyone knows how to do an InstallationCheck that uses a compiled program, > that's the part I can't find.... I'm guessing it's impossible :( InstallationCheck in distribution are usually achieved through JavaScript. That being said, there's a JavaScript API to run a shell script (or executable). The difficult part (at least with PackageMaker) is to embed the shell script or executable into the flat distribution. This requires to expand the flat distribution and then flatten it. The script or executable needs to be in a Scripts archive at the same level as the Resources folder. -- Packaging Resources - http://s.sudre.free.fr/Packaging.html _______________________________________________ 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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