Can some other Mac user confirm that Finder adds the quarantine attribute when 
getting the Eclipse.app from the .dmg?

Regards,

Liviu



> On 7 Nov 2020, at 01:48, Liviu Ionescu <i...@livius.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 7 Nov 2020, at 00:49, Alex Blewitt <alex.blew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> How was the dmg created?
> 
> Good question! I have no idea, by the magic of EPP.
> 
>> Can you mount it and see if the quarantine bits are in the dmg itself?
> 
> Sure. They are not.
> 
> ilg@wks ~ % xattr /Volumes/Eclipse/Eclipse.app 
> ilg@wks ~ % 
> 
>> If you downloaded it from a tgz, then created a dmg from that, you’d bake in 
>> the quarantine flags into the dmg itself. 
> 
> Aaaa... I don't know what to say, I did none of the above, I simply 
> downloaded both the .dmg and the .tar.gz from the Eclipse 2020-12-M2 page.
> 
>> If you can give me the exact url you downloaded I can verify it for you.
> 
> Yes, please do so, to compare the results:
> 
> https://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/downloads/release/2020-12/M2/
> 
>> But I have not noticed this behaviour on the Eclipse Platform DMGs so it’s 
>> not an issue with either Eclipse or DMGs themselves.
> 
> I downloaded the files with Safari, as usual, and the files ended in 
> ~/Downloads.
> 
> When I extracted Eclipse.app from the .dmg I used drag & drop from the 
> mounted window into another window where ~/tmp was opened. I don't think this 
> is unusual, actually this is what most users will do. 
> 
> The quarantine attribute seems to be added by Finder when copying Eclipse.app 
> from the .dmg to any folder, either in my user folders or in /Applications, 
> after authentication.
> 
> macOS 10.15.7.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Liviu
> 

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