[firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

[Timo Romppanen timo.romppa...@planmeca.com [firebird-support]]

Hello,


I currently can’t install the latest Firebird CS 2.5.4 with the provided .pkg 
installer. This may be related to new System Integrity Protection feature 
introduced in the latest OS X: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection . I hear it’s 
possible to disable this security feature from OS X but I was wondering if 
there was a way to install firebird without tampering any OS settings? I 
couldn’t find any info of upcoming support for this OS either, nor OS X 
installer for 3.0 beta and I’m hoping you haven’t given up with apple 
completely… :)


BR,


Timo



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[firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

[Bernd Frei - ASA bernd.f...@asaon.com [firebird-support]]

Hello Paul,


do you have an idea, when the packager will be supported El Capitan or is any 
other way manually to install firebird?


Thanks for you help
Bernd Frei

[firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

['Paul Beach' pabe...@waitrose.com [firebird-support]]

Bernd,

>do you have an idea, when the packager will be supported El Capitan or is any 
>other way manually to install firebird?

I am working on it.
The pkg installer is undergoing a complete re-write to comply with Flat Package 
Format.

Regards
Paul 

[firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

[Trevor Watters trev...@fbm.com.au [firebird-support]]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your work. Looking forward to using it.

Kind Regards

Trevor Watters

[firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

['Paul Beach' pabe...@waitrose.com [firebird-support]]

How to manually install Firebird on El Capitan, for those who need to know.

http://paulbeachsblog.blogspot.fr/2015/10/how-to-installupgrade-firebird-manually.html

Paul 

RE: [firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

['Paul Beach' pabe...@waitrose.com [firebird-support]]

>

I am currently using 10.10.5 not 10.11 and I will not be upgrading to
10.11 yet as its only in late RC, but the release date is September 30, 2015
So when it goes GM I guess I get to install it and try and work out whats wrong,
and come up with a solution.

In terms of Firebird 3.0, Firebird compiles on MacOSX, but I have been waiting 
for
RC1 so all the 64bit txn id code is committed. When RC1 is tagged I will start
work on the MacOSX port and installer.


Currently this is how I install it:
Right Click on the pkg file, and choose open, then select open again
But I guess that mechanism won't work mow because of SIP, I did find this:

The supported way to disable System Integrity Protection in those cases where 
it’s truly
necessary is to boot into the Recovery partition and turn System Integrity 
Protection off
from there with the csrutil tool.

$ csrutil
usage: csrutil
Modify the System Integrity Protection configuration. All configuration changes 
apply to the entire machine.
Available commands:
disable
Disable the protection on the machine. Requires a reboot.
enable
Enable the protection on the machine. Requires a reboot.
status
Display the current configuration.

The kext-dev-mode and rootless boot-args are being removed from OS X El Capitan 
and will no longer work.

But reading further the sort of places that are protected are /System, /bin, 
/sbin and /usr
whilst we install into /Applications/Frameworks... So is there anything when 
you try to install it, where it
confirms that this is a SIP problem?

Paul

RE: [firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

[timo_romppa...@yahoo.com [firebird-support]]

Hello Paul,

I haven't actually confirmed that this is a SIP problem. I was suspecting this 
after googling a bit with log message received from installer logs. I have yet 
to disable SIP altogether, but will try this later today.

Included is the installer log created by Firebird Installer.

Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: LSExceptions [0x7f93d9603070] loaded
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: @(#)PROGRAM:Install  
PROJECT:Install-1000
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: @(#)PROGRAM:Installer  
PROJECT:Installer-853
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Hardware: MacBookPro9,1 @ 2.60 GHz (x 
8), 8192 MB RAM
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Running OS Build: Mac OS X 10.11.1 
(15B17c)
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Env: 
TMPDIR=/var/folders/z1/c5tfsznx0ts_cdbdhww69qrmgn/T/
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Env: 
FS_TRASHER_SOCKET=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.9wJ4tCTvtL/ListeningSocket
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Env: 
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0x0:0x0
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Env: HOME=/Users/macuser
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Env: SHELL=/bin/bash
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Env: 
Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.OR4quis6LU/Render
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Env: 
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.j4vOrTOuXP/Listeners
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Env: 
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Env: LOGNAME=macuser
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Env: 
XPC_SERVICE_NAME=com.apple.installer.78432
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Env: USER=macuser
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Env: XPC_FLAGS=0x0
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Firebird Database  Installation Log
Sep 23 16:30:02 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Opened from: 
/Users/macuser/Downloads/FirebirdCS-2.5.4-26856-x86_64.pkg
Sep 23 16:30:03 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Top component package 
/Users/macuser/Downloads/FirebirdCS-2.5.4-26856-x86_64.pkg not found or 
understood: treat as unsigned
Sep 23 16:30:13 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: LSExceptions [0x7f93d9603070] unloaded
Sep 23 16:30:35 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: InstallerStatusNotifications plugin 
loaded
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Administrator authorization granted.
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: 

Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: User picked Standard Install
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Choices selected for installation:
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Upgrade: "Firebird Database"
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: 
FirebirdCS-2.5.4-26856-x86_64.pkg : org.firebirdsql.Firebird : 2.5.0.2.5
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: 

Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: It took 0.00 seconds to summarize the 
package selections.
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: -[IFPKGDerivedDocument 
sortedPackageLocations]: result = (
"file://localhost"
)
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: -[IFDInstallController(Private) 
_buildInstallPlanReturningError:]: location = file://localhost
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: -[IFDInstallController(Private) 
_buildInstallPlanReturningError:]: 
file://localhost/Users/macuser/Downloads/FirebirdCS-2.5.4-26856-x86_64.pkg
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Set authorization level to root for 
session
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Administrator authorization granted.
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Package 
file://localhost/Users/macuser/Downloads/FirebirdCS-2.5.4-26856-x86_64.pkg not 
supported by PK
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Unable to use PK session due to 
incompatible packages. Terminating.
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Install failed: The Installer could 
not install the software because there was no software found to install.
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: IFDInstallController D94322A0 state = 
8
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: Displaying 'Install Failed' UI.
Sep 23 16:30:43 mac-mbp Installer[66897]: 'Install Failed' UI displayed 
message:'The Installer could not install the software.

The Installer could not install the software because there was no software 
found to install.'.

RE: [firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

['Paul Beach' pabe...@waitrose.com [firebird-support]]

<>

I suspect its not SIP, but the fact that we use an outdated package format. 
Looks like El Capitan has finally deprecated it.
I found this https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/8676
Note the error message, they then switched from /var to /Applications and all 
was ok.
While we use /Library/Frameworks

Regards
Paul

RE: [firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

[timo_romppa...@yahoo.com [firebird-support]]

I can confirm this is not a SIP issue. I disabled SIP altogether but the 
problem persists. I also tried the installer on another laptop with same 
results.

BR
Timo

RE: [firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

['Paul Beach' pabe...@waitrose.com [firebird-support]]

Timo,

<>.

Thanks - that tells me where to look and try and fix the problem.

Regards
Paul Beach
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AW: [firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

[Bernd Frei - ASA bernd.f...@asaon.com [firebird-support]]

Great!

Bernd

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How to manually install Firebird on El Capitan, for those who need to know.

http://paulbeachsblog.blogspot.fr/2015/10/how-to-installupgrade-firebird-manually.html

Paul

AW: [firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

['Paul Beach' pabe...@waitrose.com [firebird-support]]

Having identified and fixed a problem in file_params.h and Info.plist, we
now have a working prototype installer via pkgbuild, albeit very alpha, but 
its installing and working OK for me on El Capitan.

Hopefully I should have something constructive early next week.

Regards
Paul 

AW: [firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

[Bernd Frei - ASA bernd.f...@asaon.com [firebird-support]]

Ok, thank you!


Bernd

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Having identified and fixed a problem in file_params.h and Info.plist, we
now have a working prototype installer via pkgbuild, albeit very alpha, but
its installing and working OK for me on El Capitan.

Hopefully I should have something constructive early next week.

Regards
Paul

AW: [firebird-support] Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan

['Paul Beach' pabe...@waitrose.com [firebird-support]]

<>

And are now available for download.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-MacOS-X_darwin/2.5.4-Release/

Regards
Paul