_______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com Basically I did this for my use: 1. Install the Flash player normall and make the change to the /Library/Application\ Support/Macromedia/mms.cfg to read AutoUpdateDisable=1 2. Mount the install_flash_player_osx.dmg 3. Right click install Adobe Flash Player and select show package contents 4. Navigate to the Contents/Resources and drag Adobe Flash Player.pkg in to the sources pane of Composer and convert to source. 5. Drag the /Library/Application\ Support/Macromedia/mms.cfg in to the source you just created in Composer 6. Under the Abobe Flash source in Composer , Right clickthe scripts folder and add Shell script, Pre-flight script, then add the contents of the script you want to execute. 7. Build it as a newly created (non-flat package) in Composer Hasaan Herrington Technical Support III Anchorage School District herrington_hasaan@asdk12.org< mailto:herrington_hasaan@asdk12.org
________________________________ From: George Spiese [gspiese@csc.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 12:14 PM To: Herrington_Hasaan Cc: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Subject: Re: PackageMaker & a Script I had reviewed the Casper Admin Guide previously, and posted to their Discussions. There it was suggested that Casper Composer "might" not be the best tool to do what I want. Now, going back to it, the only place I see to place the preflight script is in the Adobe Flash Player .pkg, something that doesn't seem right- I wonder if placing it in the third party package IS the correct place to put it. To test it, I did place it there. But now I want to place a file on the source Mac so I drag the file I want to place into the left pane of Composer. But now, I don't see a place to add the destination for that file. PackageMaker has a field for the destination, but I can't see it in Composer. Where do I indicate the destination? Please note that I am not building this pkg from a build Mac. I don't want to use a snapshot in this case. Thanks, George Spiese From: Herrington_Hasaan <herrington_hasaan@asdk12.org> To: George Spiese/USA/SC/CSC@CSC, Date: 06/20/2012 02:22 PM Subject: Re: PackageMaker & a Script ________________________________ See page 70 in in the Casper Administrators Guide, to set a preflight script in your Composer package. Hasaan Herrington Technical Support III Information Technology Sent from my mobile device -----Original message----- From: George Spiese <gspiese@csc.com> To: Herrington_Hasaan <herrington_hasaan@asdk12.org> Sent: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 17:49:01 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: PackageMaker & a Script I first tried it in Casper Composer, but had no success with placing a script that fired when delivered. Their Discussions folk suggested PackageMaker which is where I am now with this little project. I'd much rather continue using Composer as the tool for making Packages. I am glad yours worked flawlessly, can you tell me where you placed the script and any other step-by-step instruction for me to get mine to also run flawlessly? Thanks, George Spiese From: Herrington_Hasaan <herrington_hasaan@asdk12.org> To: George Spiese/USA/SC/CSC@CSC, Date: 06/20/2012 10:55 AM Subject: Re: PackageMaker & a Script ________________________________ Hey George, I just did the same process you outlined yesterday using Composer from the Casper Suite, used a preflight script to remove existing files, installed the adobe flash. Pkg and my edited .cfg file. The process worked flawlessly. Hasaan Herrington Technical Support III Information Technology Sent from my mobile device -----Original message----- From: George Spiese <gspiese@csc.com> To: "installer-dev@lists.apple.com" <installer-dev@lists.apple.com> Sent: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 14:05:03 GMT+00:00 Subject: PackageMaker & a Script I am using Apple's PackageMaker v3.0.5 to create a mpkg file that contains three items: •A shell script •An Adobe Flash Player .pkg file •A .cfg file Everything works except the script. How do I get this script to fire when sending to a remote Mac? Each item works when tested individually. The test was using Casper Suite's Casper Remote to send each to a remote Mac. The shell script sent, unpackaged fires and deletes three files on the remote Mac, just fine. The adobe Flash .pkg sent the same way installs the Flash Plugin and daemon as expected. The file is the mms.cfg. File that the Adobe Software Update Daemon reads. I've changed the settings of this file to what I want it to be. This file gets placed where I've indicated in the destination field of PackageMaker. I have changed the permissions on the script to Owner=root and Group=admin which had no affect. The script isn't running. I need to know where in PackageMaker to place the script and how I ensure it runs when sent to a remote Mac. Thanks, George Spiese thewizard@macwizard.net