site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Thread-index: AckzyqKHH1K8Mi6xyU6G9/KKKCK+DQ== Thread-topic: A question about locations within a package, vis-à-vis postinstall script User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.12.0.080729 Greg, Thank you very much for your correspondence. I have changed my ditto line to use $1, so that it now reads: ditto $1/Resources/com.product.launchd.engine_osx.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/ And yet, ditto responds that it cannot 'get real path for source'. I have also removed the sudos from the script and everything else still works even without them.... I guess that they were a security risk? I have been learning this piecemeal, and working outside of the GUI. How would you suggest that I get the com.product.launchd.engine_osx.plist file into the bom and archive? Thanks for any and all assistance! Regards, Steve O'Sullivan On 10/21/08 11:33 AM, "Greg Neagle" <Greg.Neagle@disneyanimation.com> wrote:

$1: Full path to the installation package the Installer application is processing. For example: /Volumes/Users/michelle/Desktop/ Levon.mpkg

So:

ditto $1/Contents/Resources/com.company.launchd.engine_OS.plist / Library/LaunchDaemons/

Don't use sudo in your postinstall scripts. And - any reason the launchd plist isn't simply in the archive and bom?

Try to avoid postinstall (and preinstall) file copying if at all possible. Ideally the bom should tell the truth as far as what files were installed and/or replaced by your package.

-Greg

On Oct 21, 2008, at 11:19 AM, OSullivan, Steve wrote:

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Good morning all,

I am creating an installer package using PackageMaker 3.0.2 from the command line.

I am running a postinstall script that overall seems to work well (it is triggered and most of its commands are carried out.)

The problem lies in the fact that I am trying to copy a launch daemon plist from the package to /Library/LaunchDaemons, and I cannot seem to find the proper syntax to tell the script where the launch daemon plist is located in the installer.

Things are laid out like this (examining the package with Pacifist):

engine.pkg pkgbaseengine.pkg scripts postinstall Resources launch daemon plist

In my postinstall script, I am using the following line to try and place the launch daemon plist in the appropriate place which so far fails:

sudo ditto ../Resources/com.company.launchd.engine_osx.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/

As of right now, I do not know how to properly identify the starting location of the launch daemon to be able to copy it into the /Library/LaunchDaemons directory.

I really appreciate any and all thoughts!

TIA,

Steve O'Sullivan

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