site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding :from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=MXYLmSqkatJ0+MAQeIeEEeRUHlIUX2rtFPAAk7kknlY=; b=W3ziC3s05xsz5bR41w5IHzKlzsPrl3XsFDo9QzD8uPGnXizTVi68KfNVlYQCM15fvH 7iDSldotMHElt2CATUFE7MBL5kFI6qIPcBId5PeipsB0ig6K6tHldodAh3/m9itu0N4d HHTaXPPV12qbgRMt6Md8BROb0hzi8UlJJuqtM= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=fkvYR9fugTqHODy+tTDIJfFz9ubAhMfkMAKwaDPi4GrLdlZ7kmHnjkMadMXzW3zTm1 yY2nfkLxh1tsvE4VU6PnbJYRDThnn7DAPLXvnl7RvhH83qnadJ/HuUA6Fn6HR/bzNzRl 4X3Ay9UmFp5DOJS6M8q11aRT5GVAcjKVptzFQ= On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Greg Neagle wrote: What's possible to do is this: - have a .bom file that describes what will get installed. - install nothing from the pax payload - install everything from a postinstall script. - when you display the list of files from the UI, it lists the files - when you run the installation, it installs nothing and succeeds. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... As a systems administrator, I expect the changes an installation package makes to be documented in the Archive.bom (for bundle-style receipts), or in the receipts database (for Leopard-style flat packages). I don't expect to have to reverse engineer what a postinstall script installed. It just requires to build a standard package and a package that installs nothing. You then replace the .pax[.gz] payload with the one from the empty package. When you install this package through Installer.app (tested on Tiger): This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com