[Installer.app & PackageMaker] Relocatable flag is not respected in Panther
[Installer.app & PackageMaker] Relocatable flag is not respected in Panther
- Subject: [Installer.app & PackageMaker] Relocatable flag is not respected in Panther
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:33:52 +0200
I'm going to file a bug report about this but if someone could offer an
explanation, it would be welcome.
From what I'm seeing, there's an important bug in Panther with
relocatable metapackages.
Let's say you have a metapackage which contains one package.
The package is relocatable, its default location is set to '/' and it
does not require any specific permission.
o You install this Metapackage on Mac OS X 10.2.8, you select
$HOME/Desktop as the target location. It works perfectly well.
o You install this Metapackage on Mac OS X 10.3.2, you select
$HOME/Desktop as the target location. The files are installed in '/'.
So it does NOT work.
When you install the package directly, it works.
According to the engineering specification in the "Software
Distribution" documentation on Apple's ADC site and in Panther Dev
Tools documentation:
"When you combine individual packages in a metapackage, the user will
be able to choose a destination only if all the packages in the
metapackage are relocatable. If this is the case, the user will be able
to choose only one destination for all the software, not separate
destinations for each package they install from the metapackage."
So the engineering specification are not respected in Mac OS X 10.3.2
at least. And I tend to think the bug is in 10.3.x versions too (where
x<=3).
Any Installer.app update soon?
--
Stephane
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