site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Chris Hi Matt, Thanks for the quick (like 2 minutes later...yikes!) response. Yeah, I'm doing the same thing. It's really lame that we should have to do this. Take care, Steve -----Original Message----- From: Matt DeFoor [mailto:mattd@myrealbox.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:54 AM To: Steve Johnson; installer-dev@lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Two PackageMaker problems folders into which they install, even though I have 'IFPkgFlagOverwritePermissions' flag set to 'false'. For example, /usr, /local, and /bin. I've tried building packages both from the command line and using the PackageMaker GUI, with the same results. This seems so fundamentally busted, that I figure I must be missing something. Please HELP!!! I use a postinstall shell script to solve these sorts of problems. Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ 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/ryanc%40apple.com _______________________________________________ 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... In what version of Mac OS X are you seeing this? This shouldn't be necessary. So have you had this particular problem? Do you just set the permissions back to the usual defaults, or do you go through the trouble of saving the exact state of these dirs before installing, and then restoring them back to exactly what they were before. I guess I'm wondering if someone would ever want to change the default permissions on these dirs, and therefore be pissed when my installer restores the default settings. Does Apple know about this problem? 1) My installers clobber the ownership and permission flags of the root if I install in /usr/local/bin, my installer changes the permissions on /, This email sent to ryanc@apple.com This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com