site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On Jun 9, 2008, at 10:22 PM, iceberg wrote: Is it possible to change the installer reciept names which are generated by Package Maker when building a distribution package? I have a package which installs the user's guide, named "UserGuide- EN". The package identifier that was created by Package Maker for it was "com.softarch.flashauthority.userguideen.pkg". The reciept that is created when the package is installed is "userguideen.pkg", which seems a bit too "vanilla". I'd like my reciepts to use the entire package identifier (i.e. com.softarch.flashauthority.userguideen.pkg) so that when my uninstaller deletes them, it knows it's getting the right one. Change the name of your package? "userguideen.pkg" is probably the name of your package. Thanks for your time, Ron Aldrich Software Architects, Inc. _______________________________________________ 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... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com Any suggestions?
From what I can see, there is no package name as such, at least not one that's editable.
Looking inside the metapackage, there is indeed a package named userguideen.pkg. I tried changing com.softarch.flashauthority.userguideen.pkg to comsoftarchflashauthorityuserguideen.pkg, to see if that would solve the problem. It would appear that the package identifier is not being used to generate the package name (which seems a bit counterintuitive - what's it for, if not the name?) So, I'm guessing that PackageMaker is generating its package names using the last segment of the install path, which would be bad, because it doesn't associate a namespace with it.