August 2013 - Installer-dev

Re: Micorosft Office 2011 package
by Stephen Kay 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

on 8/27/13 9:34 AM, vishnu kulkarni at vishnu5876(a)gmail.com wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been trying to Package MS Office with latest updates. I can package > the software with all the updates but when I install the package the Icon > for Micorosft office 2011 in the Applications folder is not the same > provided by microsoft. It turns to the default Blue Folder icon. Any ideas > to resolve this? I'm just lurking here, no experience with packaging, I use VISE X, so apologies if this is stupid or obvious - but did you try something as obvious as extracting the MS folder icons into an .icns file (or locating the .icns file, if it already exists), and then installing that custom icon into the folder during installation? I install my own apps into folders with custom icons...it works... I don't see why you couldn't install the MS.icns into a folder, as a separate step. You can also do that with command line. - Stephen =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Stephen Kay Karma-Lab :: developers of KARMA http://www.karma-lab.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: Micorosft Office 2011 package
by Stephen Kay 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

on 8/27/13 9:34 AM, vishnu kulkarni at vishnu5876(a)gmail.com wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been trying to Package MS Office with latest updates. I can package > the software with all the updates but when I install the package the Icon > for Micorosft office 2011 in the Applications folder is not the same > provided by microsoft. It turns to the default Blue Folder icon. Any ideas > to resolve this? I'm just lurking here, no experience with packaging, I use VISE X - but did you try something as obvious as extracting the MS folder icons into an .icns file (or locating the .icns file, if it already exists), and then installing that custom icon into the folder during installation? I install my own apps into folders with custom icons...it works... I don't see why you couldn't install the MS.icns into a folder, as a separate step. You can also do that with command line. - Stephen =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Stephen Kay Karma-Lab :: developers of KARMA http://www.karma-lab.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: Micorosft Office 2011 package
by Conor Schutzman 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

I tried for quite a while to get that folder to behave properly, but couldn’t ever get a new folder to have the correct icon. The only solution I found to work was to add the original folder, as created by Microsoft’s installer, as the payload for my first component package, so it was present for everything else to install into. That caused various over-install issues, so eventually I gave up and accepted the standard folder. The other options is to use pkgutil to expand Microsoft’s package, then flatten each of the resulting component packages, so you can just leverage them directly in your package. On Aug 27, 2013, at 6:34 AM, vishnu kulkarni <vishnu5876(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been trying to Package MS Office with latest updates. I can package the software with all the updates but when I install the package the Icon for Micorosft office 2011 in the Applications folder is not the same provided by microsoft. It turns to the default Blue Folder icon. Any ideas to resolve this? > > > 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/conor%40mac.com > > This email sent to conor(a)mac.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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Micorosft Office 2011 package
by vishnu kulkarni 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

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Re: problems installing a bundle version pkg via ARD's task server
by Henri Shustak 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

> The relevant logs state that the ./preflight can't be found. (full details here http://piratepad.net/MYqpAu1YJM ) Quoted below is the error reported by the log at the link you provided. > NSLocalizedDescription = "An error occurred while running scripts from the package \U201cMonitoringClient.pkg\U201d."; >From my quick glance, I did not see anything within the log mentioning the ./preflight script could not be found. However, it is possible that I missed that line. It seems to me that there was instead an error while executing the script. I could be mistaken. But you may want to check that the preflight script is existing with a zero status on that particular system. There was a note about the launch path not being accessible. > PackageKit: *** launch path not accessible However, this could be a permission issue. Just another possibility to investigate. Also, the following project may be of interest : https://github.com/henri/total_configuration Essentially, this is a very basic system which will install packages as specified. Potentially, you could run this system via ARD and it would suck down the package from a web server. Just a thought. Hope this helps. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This email is protected by LBackup, an open source backup solution. http://www.lbackup.org Keep in touch. Kind regards, Henri Twitter : http://www.henri.shustak.org/twitter/ LinkedIn : http://www.henri.shustak.org/linkedin/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- This email is protected by LBackup, an open source backup solution http://www.lbackup.org _______________________________________________ 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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problems installing a bundle version pkg via ARD's task server
by Allen Hancock - Watchman Monitoring 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

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Re: Installing in different directories, according to system version
by gorouben 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

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Re: Installing in different directories, according to system version
by Stephane Sudre 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

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Re: Duplicate package installation when using productbuild
by Stephane Sudre 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

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Re: Installing in different directories, according to system version
by Bill Coderre 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

kexts are usually pretty small, so do the simple thing: make two packages, and have your installer select one package for the different OS on the target volume. In your dist, this looks a little like this: > <choices-outline> > <line choice="manual"/> > </choices-outline> > <choice id="manual" title="TITLE"> > <pkg-ref id="OLD" auth="Root" active="hasOldOS(my.target.mountpoint)" onConclusion="RequireRestart">#FOO.pkg</pkg-ref> > <pkg-ref id="NEW" auth="Root" active="hasNewOS(my.target.mountpoint)">#FOO.pkg</pkg-ref> > </choice> On Aug 21, 2013, at 11:33 AM, gorouben <gorouben(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there > > This has probably already been addressed, but I did not find the answer. > What is the simplest way to install a product in different directories, according to system version. > More precisely, as this question is not under NDA, I need to install a non signed kext in /System/Library/Extensions if the version is under 10.9, a signed kext in /Library/Extensions otherwise. > > Thanks in advance > Eric > _______________________________________________ > 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/bc%40apple.com > > This email sent to bc(a)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: 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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