site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Pretty new to PackageBuilder here... Sending this out in hopes of getting some tips that might save me some time and keep me from running into brick walls. We've inherited this app that's today packaged using some release of Vise. The installation package has some nice properties where if an admin user installs it, it can easily go into /Applications but if a standard user installs it, it goes smoothly into ~/Applications. It does this without prompting for admin passwords unless really necessary. And it manages to do this on 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 (not sure I care about 10.3 moving forward but I do care about 10.5). Looking for idea of how I can simulate this behavior as closely as possible with an installation package built with PackageBuilder. I have the 3.0.3 verison of PackageBuilder on OS X 10.5.5. I've been playing with making the install destination System Volume or User Home Directory and using the /Applications target. On 10.5 this basically gives the user a choice of "install for all user" or "install for one user" and this seems to work reasonably well. I am not checking "require admin authorization" as it seems that that always prompts for the admin password, no matter what (not sure of that however). On 10.4 the resulting installer can't go into the User Home Dir and only goes into system volume. But the 10.4 install being installed by a non-admin user would require me to have that admin password prompting enabled. Is there a reasonable way to make an install package the works more closely to the Vise case, for both 10.4 and 10.5. Another question: In the 10.5 case where we can "install for all" or "install for one" it seems that the default is always install for one. Can the default be more dynamic based on the perms of the user so e.g., if they have admin privs, the default would be "install for all" but if they have "standard" privs the default would be "install for one"? Any help on these questions us really appreciated and thanks in advance... Chris _______________________________________________ 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