site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On jeudi, mars 29, 2007, at 04:42 AM, Atticus O Gifford wrote: ------- [...] 1) Should I be using /private/tmp rather than /tmp? I'm not sure which is the more appropriate location. 2) Am I approaching this all wrong? What are other people doing? _______________________________________________ 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 apologize for the length of this! The short version is I need a way to pass information from plug-ins that get executed before the authorization step in the installer to a package later in the installer that does the actual writing. For more detail, read on: I'm currently using /tmp as a well-known location to pass messages in text files, but I'm not sure that's the best solution here. Additionally, the package that does the writing at the end seems to have trouble installing files to /tmp (I get generic errors, and the installer quits with no other information). 3) why won't files install into /tmp from the package I'm using? Permissions on original files? Should it matter for /tmp? Grouping 1) and 3). Since /tmp is symlink to /private/tmp, is the Follow Symlink option enabled in your package? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com