We need to transfer the scripts from the master and make the appropriate
modifications to keep the bugfixes that went into the scripts in the last
months.
I'm going to have a look at the necessary changes.

Ingo
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Sorry for a long delay. As I posted in the pull request #231, we are ready
> to make progress on this. I've attempted a merge, and I've pushed the
> result into a branch.
>
> Would you or Ingo verify my assumption that we still need to overwrite the
> scripts by those in the master? Are there anything else that needs to be
> done before merging this into the master?
>
>
> On 02/18/2012 01:35 PM, Sami Tikka wrote:
>
>> What is the OS X version of the host where Mac installer is built? And
>> should we start thinking about signing the installer?
>>
>> I'm asking because there's a pull request
>> (https://github.com/jenkinsci/**jenkins/pull/231<https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/231>)
>> that would be useful
>> to merge. The PR changes the tools used to create the installer to the
>> latest Apple packaging tools (productbuild and packagebuild). These
>> tools are only available in Xcode 4, which requires 10.6.
>>
>> This week Apple announced their next OS version and at the same time
>> made available updated version of Xcode and related tools. The new
>> tools no longer contain a command-line version of the PackageMaker,
>> the tool currently used to create the Jenkins Mac installer. It would
>> be important to merge PR#231 if we want to upgrade to latest Apple
>> tool chain.
>>
>> We might soon be forced to upgrade: OS X 10.8 is going to only allow
>> installing software signed with a certificate from Apple and this
>> might require using the latest tools. (Yes, it will be possible to
>> configure 10.8 to allow unsigned software, but that is not the
>> default.)
>>
>> The PR#231 is several months old and needs rework in order to merge
>> cleanly and take into account the latest Mac installer improvements,
>> like setting up launchd job as a user with a writable home directory.
>> Is anyone going to do it? I can do it if no-one else is interested.
>>
>> After PR#231 is merged, we should upgrade the Mac installer build
>> machine to 10.7.3 and install the latest tool chain. Where is the Mac
>> installer build machine? Who takes care of it?
>>
>> -- Sami
>> .
>>
>>
>
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