site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:mime-version:in-reply-to :references:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from :subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=ujzYaAQ2Y9i6iUGEtpxL5ovaxGPP/4K1pV9V8sEZXjI=; b=IZfzWUBrKyDrRb/CQRjrIlLM+7t5n9zhDJNcw+gzwHh1vkBMYPlF6AwY2FAI9dLngd juDWHGruCDtPYxMJxYIOW3Tiw2w8yOLp49YD3K/3KGTQSABfecF3ZJ48tAcYVtWmt19/ fovF/BzgGec5yvYpRrKz2JklXGV9tByjYUckU= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:content-type:message-id :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=hidf1z4UzDVxnLTGrLzm/Tvo34jsqtlqRQJICETe/3Q9Hv+RzTYSmejhSoebdNyawR /Tc1TpSMs39silZJcwcAIpybi8BMus4WN4R1uA70cqhc4pkyTs7SsangDBuH9QijRiPD rOaDn0CaThxHU8HKe9J7HwGy2O9IEifbO2sd0= On Aug 23, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: It fails with the following output: _______________________________________________ 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... Installer.app is complaining that the Source media I am installing is corrupted. OK but it's correctly seen by Pacifist and it can be extracted from Pacifist. BOMFatalError - cpio read error: bad file format OK, so the problem in this case was that the Payload file of the flat package was compressed "twice". Basically, there is room for improvement in Installer.app regarding the way it deals with flat packages because it is as flexible as an iron bar. Flat packages are xar archives. You can add files to a xar archive and by default it will compress them as gzip file inside the archive. Installer.app (or the Installation Framework) assumes that the Payload file has been added uncompressed to the xar archive. But at the same time the Flat Package Editor does not complain when the file is added compressed. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com