site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On Aug 12, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Howard Moon wrote: Thanks, -Howard _______________________________________________ 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've finally got my PackageMaker-built installer working, but there's one issue remaining: the executables (an app and a plug- in) are not showing their icons. When doing a VISE-X install, they show up, but not after doing a package install. Anyone know how to tell why not, or how to force Finder to show them? Looking in Terminal, I can see a file whose name is listed as "Icon?" in both my source files and in the final install, but *something* must be different between the two, since the source files show their icon (as does the VISE-X installed version), but the package- installed versions don't. Any thoughts? Thanks for all the help so far! Is the root item of your package payload the application itself and the default target location /Applications? And is the application's icon not set through a bundle but through a Resource Fork? If the answer is yes to both, then it's a known bug in PackageMaker, splitforks and Installer.app (pick one of the three depending on the OS version). A workaround is to use / as the default location and have the Applications/MyApp path be part of your payload. I don't see any "default location", but there is a Destination field for the Choice. When I set that to empty or to /, and set the Destination field of each of the Packages (inside the Choice) to the folder path (/Applications/mycompany/mydir/), then I get warnings for all my packages that says: User ID 501 does not match 0 of root volume for "/Applications/ mycompany/mydir/myfile". Make sure to have disk permissions repaired with Disk Utility. I'm not even going to *try* running the installer with warnings like that! :-) Well, I did try running the installer, even with those warnings, but no luck. Still no custom icons visible. If I manually copy the file from my 10.5 development partition to my 10.6 test partition, the icon shows up perfectly. But not when it's installed via the package. Another oddity... whenever I go to delete the installed files, I get asked for my password. The permissions look the same to me, so what the heck? The exact same files installed via my VISE-X installer (or simply copied over) do not require a password to delete. The "mode" on the executable files (bundles) that I install all say "drwxrwxr- x". My 10.6 OS was installed while importing my settings from my 10.5 OS, so I should have the same permissions, and looking at the files in Terminal, using "ls -a -l", they look exactly the same, with "Howard" as the owner and "admin" as the group. So what gives? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com