site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) I've seen a strange error with SL upgrade of a package. Here's what's happening. 1) Install initial package -- bundle version 1.0.2 2) Run installer of new package, with bundle version 1.0.3 Kevin _______________________________________________ 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... Iceberg-Dev wrote: On Sep 4, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Kevin Brock wrote: result: 'PackageKit: skipping component "com.thecompany.theapp" (*-1.0.0-*-*) because the version *-1.0.2-*-* is already installed.' I figured something was wrong with the 1.0.3 package, so I uninstalled 1.0.2, installed 1.0.3 fresh. Worked. Now I tried to upgrade to 1.0.4, result: 'PackageKit: skipping component "com.mycompany.theapp" (*-1.0.0-*-*) because the version *-1.0.3-*-* is already installed.' so clearly is is able to see that 1.0.3 *is* 1.0.3. So, why didn't it see this during the upgrade from 1.0.2? Is it looking at a different plist entry in each case? Any help would be appreciated. I would tend to believe the problem would lie with the version Installer.app thinks it's seeing in the package you're trying to install. The par tI don't get is how it can guess the format of your version number x.x.x. It gets stranger. I'm using short version string for the 'version', i.e., 1.0.2. I'm using the build # for the bundle version, e.g., 1, 2, 3. So the 'About' box shows 1.0.2 (19) for example. - Install version 1.0.2 (19) --> works. Run it, yes it shows build 19 in the about box. - Upgrade to version 1.0.(20) --> works. Run it, yes it shows build 20 in the about box. - Upgrade *that* to 1.0.2 (21) --> skipping component "com.mycompany.theapp" (*-19.0.0-*-*) because the version *-1.0.2-20.0.0-*-* is already installed. Now I know that the version number 19 is nowhere in build 21. I generated three builds, one right after the other, where the only change was the CFBundleVersion in the plist file. Maybe SL is caching things it's not supposed to? Something's really screwy here, and I can't figure out whether it's something I'm doing or something SL is doing. I can't do anything to fix this in the preflight script because the installer is making the decision not to install the package before it runs the script. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com