site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On Mar 3, 2008, at 7:33 PM, Steven Meyer wrote: I'll describe my problems more specifically So, How do I put my script in content/resources? Or any other solution would be fine. // no iTunes = install if ( !plist ) { return true; } _______________________________________________ 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... I am having difficulties running a shell script from the Requirements of an installer distribution. How do I add a shell script to a distribution package so that it will be run in the requirements? This is packagemaker 3.0.1. I am selecting "script for target "in the requirements. My script is exiting 0, but the check fails. Looking at "Distribution.dist" in raw editing mode, I see a javascript routine defined. function pm_volume_check() { if(!(system.run('/Users/stevenmeyer/scripts/check_target.sh') == true)) { my.result.title = 'Failure'; my.result.message = 'Cannot install to volume'; my.result.type = 'Fatal'; return false; } return true; } in the documentation system.run returns the exit code of the script, so the statement "(system.run('/Users/stevenmeyer/scripts/ check_target.sh') == true)" is wrong. Exiting with 1, however gets a passed requirement check. That problem dealt with, I find another which stumps me. The absolute path of the script is coded into the javascript. system.run looks for a script in the the /content/Resources/ . I add scripts to the Resources folder in raw editing mode but javascript does not find them. If I knew the installers path while in javascript, I could perhaps work around this by calling my script with an absolute path. Looking in the documentation, I find nothing about installer path while in javascript. Manually or through a shell script (which would mean, you may need to build your package/distribution script through the PackageMaker command line). or How can I find the installer path in javascript so that I can call script placed elsewhere? I am trying to discover if photoshop is on a volume, where it is and what version. I can handle that pretty much from the shell. I do not know how to do this from javascript. I haven't found a public distribution script from Apple that uses system.run so far. But maybe you could just be as cheap as the iTunes distribution script. It only check for the presence of iTunes in /Applications. function VolumeCheck() { // do not downgrade var plist = system.files.plistAtPath("/Applications/ iTunes.app/Contents/Info.plist"); if ( plist.CFBundleShortVersionString && (system.compareVersions(plist.CFBundleShortVersionString, '7.6.1') != 1) ) { return true; } my.result.message = system.localizedStringWithFormat ('isDowngrade'); my.result.type = 'Fatal'; return false; } Of course, it's cheap. But hey, it's been distributed to thousands of users and it hasn't made oceans rise. I would have thought that maybe it could be possible to locate the application through the JavaScript extensions but it only deals with running applications. And it doesn't seem like you could use a {token} for the path (or maybe you can but since this is not documented, there's no way to know about it). This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com