site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Dear List & Stéphane, On vendredi, septembre 8, 2006, at 11:18 PM, Mark Coniglio wrote: I create a disk image on Tiger. Just to eliminate obvious cases: Yes -- the .app is shown in Pacifist. No -- it isn't there on Panther, but is there on Tiger. The partition is MacOS Extended (Journaled). Best, Mark -- ===================================================================== Mark Coniglio, Artistic Co-Director | mark@troikaranch.org Troika Ranch Dance Theater | http://www.troikaranch.org ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ 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/bc%40apple.com _______________________________________________ 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'm not on the Installer.app team, but I frequently write installers that work on 10.3 and 10.4 systems both (I wrote iLife 04, 05, and 06). I am mystified by this behavior. Never heard of anything like it. Is it easy to either email it to me privately or post it somewhere where I can download it? (Obviously, it should be "sanitized" to protect your intellectual property, so if it's not a big deal, make an installer than installs, say, TextEdit that exhibits this behavior.) I am going to make a wild guess that your installer is "rooted" at "/ Applications/MyApp.app/" and you're installing stuff into there. Re- rooting it to /Applications or to / should fix it. Or perhaps you're using the Locator in some atypical way that's somehow making it behave crazily. Wild guesses. If those don't work, please email me privately and I'll have a look and suggest a workaround. On Sep 9, 2006, at 5:00 AM, Mark Coniglio wrote: How do you transfer the package from Tiger to Panther? This resulting disk image is downloaded by the user, automatically mounts and runs. On Tiger all is well -- the application folder is called "MyName.app". On Pather, it is just "MyName", thus it doesn't show up as an application. The package is a self-contained item, no? It would seem that the method of copying it to Panther would have no bearing on how it would be installed. It seems more like the program that runs the installer package on Panther is making a mistake, as compared to the installer package on Tiger. - when you use Pacifist to inspect the package contents, the .app extension is there? - On Panther, when you make a ls in the folder where the app is installed, the .app extension is there? - Is the Panther OS on a non HFS(+) partition such as UFS? So again, it would seem that the installer program that lives in 10.3.9 is dropping the .app from the folder name, while the installer program in Tiger is not. I suppose there must be some way to run a post-install script to check this and fix it if necessary. I'll look up the docs on that. This email sent to bc@apple.com This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com