site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Organization: Oracle Thread-index: AcqNp5kIeFpkwcRQQ+K7+2ovqdULrAAPVYYg Hi Paul It's been a while since I struggled with this and things might have improved since then, but I never got CLI packagemaker to work well for me. I suffered a litany of problems where the output package was simply wrong, localisations were ignored, or the .pmdoc settings (e.g. the "allow relocation" setting) would mysteriously get reset to their defaults. I'm sure there's a trick to fixing these problems, but I could never trust the output of my builds. In the end I switched to using Iceberg for my installer building, and it was much more reliable. Like packagemaker, it is possible to run it from the command line in an automated build. I'd recommend it if you haven't already come across it. -- Ben. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Forgey [mailto:paulf@tessier-ashpool.net] Sent: Tue 05 January 2010 01:37 To: Ben Staveley-Taylor Cc: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Preinstall/Postinstall actions not created using CLI packagemaker Actions do not seem to work with command line built packages in this version of packagemaker (and still happening in XCode 3.2.1). I, too, would like to know if anybody has found a workaround for this. On Sep 9, 2009, at 5:04 AM, Ben Staveley-Taylor wrote:

I am running packagemaker from XCode 3.1.2.

I have created a .pmdoc for my installer, and defined some preinstall and postinstall actions in the Actions tab of the overall Distribution package (not an individual package).

When I build the installer from the GUI, it all works. When I build it from the command line as I would do in a build script, the preinstall and postinstall actions do not run. The difference is that when built from the CLI, the pseudo-packages that contain the actions just aren't being created.

Interactively built from PackageMaker GUI, I get this package structure:

MyInstaller.mpkg Contents Packages MyPackage.pkg MyPackagePostflight.pkg MyPackagePreflight.pkg

Built from packagemaker CLI tool, I get this package structure:

MyInstaller.mpkg Contents Packages MyPackage.pkg

My packagemaker command line is:

packagemaker --doc "<path to MyInstaller.pmdoc>" \ --out "<path to MyInstaller.mpkg>" \ --id com.mycompany.myproduct.pkg \ --verbose

Has anybody else come across this? What's the vital command line parameter I am missing?

Thanks

Ben Staveley-Taylor Oracle

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