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:mime-version:in-reply-to :references:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from :subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=Cu/yv2ItmS4bK6Y0GzyVCuulIBD6GOKMpxWZpkOpoiY=; b=VifmM/b/Aa0LicrSZaGMsv45VTMMFguWhrLmnOzv4fOmCdDMJ5jQbKeY56dfxThscz tkcmafgznnBF821FSPhAN/Yw4Zm4u2EnhTiiogw5TSWiBjET2fPSMakFZzkK9PxkSu76 YO7zSWRwxG8tdLVq3S+SAykotXNkjiykqPqgQ= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:content-type:message-id :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=h5MidSdDQM+Cd51nre/fvQJARoRJ3oj9J15d9jJDDLKLndUdRjPM/It9Jvd30IsZQH ogZUvq3GHoubb9YPArw9kzozWA0Zh7C8CbNjktGCuUm9yA+xoNxldkwRU1nInJxqe+7S N/av1WH9KoHXNreOp7ahyUiItQ972k6+54q+s= On May 19, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Bill Coderre wrote: (a) crazy "bundle-style" format (10.0-10.1). (b) "bundle-style" format after the rehab (10.2-10.3) _______________________________________________ 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... On May 19, 2009, at 4:01 AM, soubhagya ranjan nayak wrote: I am new to Mac and creating installation packages as well. Inside every package directory, there is an info.plist file. I think the contents of the info.plist file is used by the installer application during installation. So we can change the behavior of an installation by manipulating the info.plist file. Please correct me if I am wrong. I want to get the documentation of the info.plist file to know the significance of each entry and what entries are allowed. It would be of great help. A hint to put things in perspective: Mac OS X Installer is a special app that lives on the user's hard drive. In general, it gets enhancements at major releases (Cheetah, Puma, Panther, Tiger, Leopard) and bug fixes in between. There have been three major versions of the way install packages work: • Original, "bundle-style" packages (10.0 through 10.3) • "Distribution script" based packages (10.4) • "Flat" packages (10.5) I would tend to think there are 4 because there are 2 versions of the "bundle-style" package: The first format was crazy because for instance changing the name of the package bundle would break the installation, there was no Info.plist but an old Unixish key attribute text file, etc. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com