site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On 21-Apr-09, at 3:07 AM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: On Apr 21, 2009, at 12:06 AM, Wrekso Wibowo wrote: On 20-Apr-09, at 1:27 PM, Iceberg-Dev wrote: On Apr 20, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Wrekso Wibowo wrote: Hi all, There is one: COMMAND_LINE_INSTALL _______________________________________________ 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 a postinstall executable as part of an installer. The installer can be launched in one of three ways: - manually (ie. user launching installer by double clicking) - as part of custom installer built by Assistant-like app - using Apple Remote Desktop I'd like to distinguish how it was launched, and behave slightly differently when the Installer is launched manually. As it appears, the postinstall is separate process from the Installer and I haven't found a way to indicate in the postinstall that the Installer is launched manually by user (instead of via ARD). I'm thinking perhaps there is an environment variable that is available and can be checked only within Cocoa apps under Tiger and up. Does anyone know if such thing exists? Any help is appreciated. I am cross-posting to Cocoa-dev in the hope that somebody may have a solution. It can also be accessed from JavaScript. How and where can I access the above environment variable? I tried using getenv() as well as [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] environment] from command line tool and cocoa app respectively without success. Ideally I would have some code in my postinstall that should know how the installer is called. If you're not able to retrieve it from your tool, you can retrieve it from the postinstall script and pass it to the app or tool as an argument. For whatever reason, my postinstall doesn't see COMMAND_LINE_INSTALL being defined. I guess I'll try to find another way. Thanks for your help. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com