site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcY3VhWgBZFB1PQDQLiC60L/87m9fw== Thread-topic: Relocatable packaging, other drives and authentication I've been playing around with the InstallerDist2.dmg files to see what can be done with .dist files. One of the things we've been playing around in our designs is the following: * Default installation "domain" is the local domain, s.t. the main applications go into /Applications and the fonts go into /Library/Fonts[/Microsoft] * Alternate installation "domain" of the user domain, s.t. the main applications go into ~/Applications and the fonts go into ~/Library/Fonts[/Microsoft] - this is specifically to target users who have a copy of Office they want to run on a lab machine where they don't have admin authority. * Alternate installation "domain" of the network domain, s.t. the main applications go into /Network/Applications and the fonts go into /Network/Library/Fonts[/Microsoft]. * Custom location for the applications, perhaps also the fonts; probably still within the idea of the domain, just so that the permissions can be set accordingly. One limitation of the .dist appears to be that you cannot set your install point to be one volume, but have a choice with a different custom location point to a different volume. I can imagine that a user with sufficiently small OS drive space may decide to install the fonts into /Library/Fonts, but have the main application on an alternative partition, e.g. /Volumes/Data. Is this the case, or am I missing something? Another apparent limitation of the package system (though I haven't tried it to make sure), is that in order to support the application's default installation of into /Applications, I'd need to make the permissions be root:admin 1775. However, if I'm in the "user" case, where the user isn't an admin and doesn't plan on installing the application for all users, I'd not be able to make the permissions be root:admin even if I wanted to (which I don't, I'd rather it just be the user's uid and gid). Furthermore, it seems like it's just a static setting that a package requires admin authentication or not. Is this the case, or am I missing something? Thanks in advance, Nathan ---- Nathan Herring MacBU SDE/Development _______________________________________________ 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