Hi,
I've been digging and delving and have found out why this is flakey!
When I Drag in the folder in PM, it sets the privileges to the same
as the local copy. I then override then in the content pane, so then
become owner: root, group: admin. This seems to work ok when you
press "Apply Recommendations", however, if you drill down into the
hierarchy of file, you see see that inside the .app bundle, the
contents are still set to the local settings. If you "Select All" and
do it, it correctly changes them to root/admin.
If you then build and run an installer, it creates:
/Application/AppFolder/AppFolder/myApp.app!!!!!
If you then remove the Destination field from the Folder (not the
container) e.g. set it blank, then all works as expected!
So it looks like it does do the sensible thing. e.g. If the
Destination Field is blank on an item in the Container, then it
defaults to the Destination of the Container.
All the Best
Dave
On 17 Dec 2008, at 17:00, Jeremy Pereira wrote:
On 17 Dec 2008, at 15:27, Dave wrote:
On 17 Dec 2008, at 12:03, Jeremy Pereira wrote:
On 17 Dec 2008, at 11:28, Dave wrote:
Hi Mark,
Thanks a lot, it certainly is a lot easier to use and a lot less
flakey, but it still doesn't work. It does not create a folder
in "/Applications" it just installs the raw files there instead.
I'm giving up on PackageMaker, it just doesn't work and there
doesn't seem to be any support for it.
Seems crazy that you can't do this one simple thing with it, in
every other installer I've ever used this would have been a 5
min job, 2 days later using PackageMaker and still nothing. Oh
well, such is life.
It would be crazy if it were true, but it's not.
I've just created a simple package maker project that installs to
a sub directory of /Applications and it works absolutely fine.
Here's how I did it.
I created a directory in my home folder that mirrored the way I
want the final installation to look i.e.
/Users/jeremyp/
-> /Applications
-> /ASubDir
I put the distribution application in ASubDir, so I have this
directory structure:
/Users/jeremyp/
-> Applications/
-> ASubDir/
-> MyApp.app
In package maker, I added /Users/jeremyp/Applications as content.
On the right hand pane
Install was /Users/jeremyp/Applications
Destination was /Applications (I had to change this from "/")
After running the installer with the built package, I had a
subdirectory within /Applications called ASubDir containing my
application exactly as expected.
Please see my last post. Did you set the Destination on the
Contained and the Folder within it?
I'm not quite sure what you mean. It seems to me that what
actually happens is that PM takes everything *in* the folder you
specify in the Install field and copies it *into* the location in
the destination field.
I think the reason it's like this and the destination field
defaults to / is that a common use-case of PM is you want to
install lots of components in different places e.g. an application
in /Applications and a driver in /System/Library/Extensions.
It doesn't seem to work unless you do this. To me this seems odd,
if left empty surely better behavior would be to use the
Containing Item's Destination rather than "/" ? If you wanted it
to go into "/", you could just override by entering "/" in the
folder Destination.
Also did you try it with files other than just the .app file? e.g.
the .app file and (say) a .txt file.
Yes. In fact, I just tried it with an empty directory in my
package and the empty directory was created successfully. I had
this structure:
$HOME/testpm/Applications/
subdir/
hosts (copied frome /etc/hosts)
emptydir/
I added $HOME/Applications as the content. The install field was
$HOME/Applications, the destination was /Applications
The subdir structure was created faithfully in /Applications
including the emptydir.
Incidentally, this method preserved the folder icon I set for the
subdir directory.
All the Best
Dave
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