site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com The /Applications/Firefox.app tree is being installed. The installation requires admin authorization. — F _______________________________________________ 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 have an installer package for a branded version of Firefox. For my postflight, I need to work from a directory I install in /tmp. Installer.app is skipping that directory. I'm building from the PackageMaker tool in 10.4, from Info and Description plists created long ago by Iceberg, and hand-edited from there. The PackageMaker tool reports no errors. The installer does not install my /tmp subdirectory. The 10.4 Installer.app doesn't log anything about this; in 10.5 it logs 'Skipping "./private/tmp/_FFExtensions"'. My postflight confirms that the _FFExtensions directory isn't there, and listing /tmp shows it isn't there. Here are the last few lines from a lsbom of Contents/Archive.bom: ===================== ./Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/ InfoPlist.strings 100664 0/80 184 3407637100 ./Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/firefox-bin.rsrc 100664 0/80 792 3037674570 ./Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/firefox.icns 100664 0/80 62776 3334399528 ./private 40755 501/501 ./private/tmp 40777 501/80 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions 40777 501/80 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions/libx-uchicago.xpi 100666 501/80 178397 657451322 ./private/tmp/_FFExtensions/nsitbookmarks.xpi 100666 501/80 7357 1514279906 ===================== One thing that occurs to me is that I could possibly do better with the ownership of /tmp and its contents, which the BOM has as fritza/ wheel (where fritza is the name of my account, user 501, and wheel is group 80). One of the machines on which I'm seeing the failure is the one on which fritza and wheel really do exist. Advice? What should I do to pursue this (or, better, fix it)? Is there at least a diagnostic to show why Installer.app is skipping that directory? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com