Re: Editor is really buggy (and Symbolic Link and Xcode Install - RESOLVED)
Re: Editor is really buggy (and Symbolic Link and Xcode Install - RESOLVED)
- Subject: Re: Editor is really buggy (and Symbolic Link and Xcode Install - RESOLVED)
- From: Ashley Aitken <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 19:45:31 +0800
Just to report back on a (hopefully) successful workaround this problem
(of not having enough space to keep /Developer on the root partition
and trying to install Xcode 1.2).
On 31/05/2004, at 11:21 AM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
On May 30, 2004, at 9:00 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
I'm sorry I probably wasn't clear enough. I realise it needs to
install stuff within /System and elsewhere on the boot partition.
However, this doesn't explain why it is unhappy with /Developer being
a symbolic link onto another partition? As I mentioned, I have moved
/Developer off the boot partition.
It's because Apple's package system uses the "Pax" archive format. For
some reason, Pax doesn't like symbolic links, and tends to overwrite
any link it runs into while unarchiving something. I'm surprised it
just skipped installing the Developer tree in your case... It should
have destroyed that link and installed the folder in its place. Maybe
the behavior of Pax has changed in the last few years. Does anyone
know for sure?
I tried a straight install again (removed the appropriate receipts for
Xcode packages). Again it didn't (seem to) update Xcode - the bundle
folder still report 1.1 and so did the application when run - and it
didn't even overwrite the symbolic link for /Developer. Strange?
Anyway, you can probably use a package extraction tool, such as
Pacifist, to unpack the Developer directory to the path of your
choice.
A good idea and this (hopefully) has saved the day. I extracted all
the material that was to go on /Developer and installed it on
/Volumes/Local/Developer. It completed ok and now I have Xcode 1.2
running (and other updated apps) but the Xcode bundle folder still
reports 1.1.
Anyone know why that would be the case?
Further, there was one (or two) dubious moments when Pacifist asked
whether I wanted to replace the bundles or update them. I think I
understand the difference but can anyone tell me how I can tell (if it
is possible) which is appropriate?
For this update I chose to "update the bundles" and it seems to have
worked fine, but I can imagine some cases when it would be more
appropriate to replace the bundles entirely, and doing an update
(rather than replace) may be problematic?
Thanks to all who helped.
Cheers,
Ashley.
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Ashley Aitken
Perth, Western Australia
mrhatken at mac dot com
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