AW: Need a little help with package maker

Tiemo Hollmann TB toolbook at kestner.de
Fri Feb 6 08:42:16 EST 2009


Perhaps somebody can give me an advice for a good Mac developer forum, where
I could ask this toppic. I didn't find any at developer.apple.com and
macuser.com seems to be a "user" community.
Thanks for any hint
Tiemo

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> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Tiemo Hollmann TB
> Gesendet: Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 10:08
> An: 'How to use Revolution'
> Betreff: OT: Need a little help with package maker
> 
> Hello,
> 
> creating my first package ever on a Mac, using PackageMaker I stick at two
> issues, probably a lack of Mac-knowledge.
> 
> I tested to package one app bundle and one readme.txt file. As Destination
> I
> entered for both: /Applications/MyName
> 
> Building the package succeeds without warnings or errors. Running the
> package, it runs through all steps, saying "copying, etc." and finishes
> with
> "installation successful"
> 
> BUT, in the destination dir there is only my readme.txt, no app. Searching
> my HD for my app, it doesn't appear anywhere. What and where to did the
> packageMaker install?
> 
> What am I missing here?
> 
> Second is, I would like to launch an app foo after installation, which
> resides in the same folder / CD as my package. PackageMaker offers me to
> assign a script for postinstall, but coming from Win I don't know, how to
> write a script on a Mac, which calls my app. I tried to assign directly my
> app, but PackageMaker just ignores it, obviously it has to be a script.
> 
> I know, that these are actually no topics for a rev forum, but perhaps it
> is
> so easy for some of you, that you could just give me a quick coaching
> these
> to issues. Thank you for any help!
> 
> Tiemo
> 
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