site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On Sep 3, 2005, at 12:22 AM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: On vendredi, septembre 2, 2005, at 11:32 PM, Pavol Markovic wrote: On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Peter Bierman wrote: To overwrite directory permissions. It may not work if the requested privileges are not the proper one. This option shall probably not be used if: - you're not 100% sure about the permissions Pavol Markovic _______________________________________________ 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... If you insist on packaging existing system directories into your package, then you'll have to be sure that you get the owners, groups, and permissions correct on those directories. And if Apple changes them (or any other developer doing the same thing), then there will be inconsistencies, and users will need to use repair permissions (which more or less just looks at Apple packages to settle the disagreements.) So what's the purpose of "Overwrite Directory Permissions" checkbox in PackageMaker? This doesn't make sense for me. - the archive files are relocatable (because you can't be sure the final location is the one you think it is). Another reason not to use it even if you know what you're doing is that the team responsible for the directory permissions of Mac OS X is playing a funny game which consists to change the permissions of some common folders without any warning between 2 major releases: for instance in Mac OS X 10.4, the /Library folder now has a sticky bit which it didn't have before. In Mac OS X 10.3, items in StartupItems were not all root and wheel, now they need to be, etc... If you're not 100% sure about what you're doing, you should not be using it IMHO. My $0.02 Thanks, I understand the problem from this side. I'm just expecting that the permissions will stay unchanged if I leave the checkbox off. But that's not true when I have directory structure included in package. That's what I consider fuzzy. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com