packagemaker

I've put together my very first package with PackageMaker (for a system service), but I am not happy about several faults: Frequent crashes while applying target permissions to my source files Package source files are not automatically or easily refreshed File filter does not work Is there something else out there more capable of this task? Free is not a requirement. Yes it is, and yes it's buggy. Apple uses the command line version pretty much exclusively so the GUI tends to have the feeling that it's been slapped together by a summer intern and never tested. PackageMaker is the standard, for

I am trying to use the "Result of Script" Requirement to check if a particular process is running, so that I can message the user before installation begins. My script is a shell script that returns 1 for failure and 0 for success. The problem I'm having is that, regardless of my return value, the installer flow is interpreting it as failure. I am not using an incredibly simple script: #!/bin/bash echo "script starting">> /tmp/myfile true (the echo is to assure myself that the script is, in fact, running). I've tried replacing the last line with a lot of things (exit 0, exit 1, "true", "TRUE")

I'm trying to create an install package. I've got all my components, and I think I understand most of the process. I want to have an install/set-up script that is run as part of the install. I planned to put it either as a post-install action or a post-install script. The problem is that I need user-input. I can't figure out how to either get user input into the script, or how to add a page in the install UI that has a place for user input and then pass that on to the script. I guess, I could write an apple-script with a dialog to ask the question, and then pass that information on to my shell