Re: PackageMaker and scripts
Re: PackageMaker and scripts
- Subject: Re: PackageMaker and scripts
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:28:33 +0000
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: PackageMaker and scripts
On Aug 7, 2012, at 6:20 AM, Douglas Norton wrote:
> Don,
>
> IIRC the post install scripts are shell scripts. email@hidden would be a better place to ask this question.
>
> Would it be more friendly to your users to duplicate the file as an operation upon first launch of your app?
>
> Two reasons why this might be preferable are
>
> 1: You may not have permissions to rename the current file,
> 2: If your user reverts to your previous version the old support file will now be missing if it has been renamed.
>
> (1) is unlikely since I think post install scripts run as a root user
post-installation scripts are run as root when admin authentication is requested.
Otherwise they are run as the user who opened the installation package.
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