Re: Making an installer package (locations and, owner/group)
Re: Making an installer package (locations and, owner/group)
- Subject: Re: Making an installer package (locations and, owner/group)
- From: Christiaan Hofman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:03:29 +0200
On Oct 5, 2010, at 13:30, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> On 05 Oct 2010, at 13:18, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
>> On 05 Oct 2010, at 13:06, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>>> I would disagree with both of you, based on what I see in my Applications folder. I would say that you should get the same as a standard installation would give you (i.e. drag&drop from a dmg), which means that the owner should be the user.
>>
>> It's normal that this is the default from a drag&drop (any other default would require hacks, since this behaviour is the default behaviour for copying a file), but it's inconvenient if you have multiple admin users or for an installer package (the installer simply unpacks a xar file that contains for each file a numerical representation of the owner/group, and there is no numerical representation for "the user executing this installer").
>
> Another point: when you install the developer tools, you can see that the entire /Developer hierarchy (except for Developer/SDKs, at least for Xcode 3.1.2 on Mac OS X 10.5) is
> a) owned by root:admin
> b) group readable/writable
>
> I think that the logic is the same there.
>
>
> Jonas
Except for the tiny difference that the /Developer hierarchy is not an app.
Christiaan
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