site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On Feb 15, 2008, at 12:29 AM, Paul FitzGerald wrote: I am using the PackageMakers Users Guide as my reference. -- Stephane _______________________________________________ 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... So, I started with a new startup company and I'm the only Mac Engineer. That means I now have to build my own installers. Log time Mac developer, new to PackageMaker. What I want to do is to use the PackageMaker GUI to setup a pmdoc file that I can call from a shell script to package up our product. I'm having several issues. The biggest one is consistency. It seems that every installer I build (currently building from the GUI) behaves differently. So far I can't nail down specifics. But I'd like to get a feel for the stability of this version of PackageMaker before I go nuts. Two issues that I'm having problems with are... 1) Setting Owner/Group/Mode. I want to set Owner to root and Group to Admin and one directory in the app need write access for everyone. The permissions in the app are already set as I need them but the Owner/Group is not. It seems that sometimes the installer does what I want and sometimes it does not. 2) I have a Postinstall Action that is suppose to launch the application when the installer is done. (I'd also like the installer to quit post install as well) I've seen it work a couple of times but usually nothing happens. Thanks for any help and pointer in the right direction, Which package format do you use (or to be PackageMaker compliant, which OS do you target when you create your project)? A postinstall action does not mean the same thing depending on the package format... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com