Stefano Mori <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can packagemaker put soft links into a pkg? 
> 
> Take for example Office 2011 which has various soft links in amongst its 
> folder structure in /Applications. 
> How can I package that?
> 
> It is odd also because, when inspecting the contents of some pkg archives, I 
> see their creators have somehow put soft links into the archive, but when 
> I've tried running packagemaker on a folder containing soft links, it seems 
> to harden the links into real file copies, or follow the links and end up in 
> loops and crash.
> 
> I've resorted to using a postinstall script to create the soft links, but 
> presumably there's a proper way?

Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition (AAMEE) has the same problem. The 
/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Profiles and 
/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Recommended FOLDER ALIASES get converted to actual 
FOLDERS. This causes the AAMEE generated PKG to fail when pushed to target 
computers. Adobe is aware of the AAMEE issue and I believe they are working to 
resolve it.

In the old days we used FileScripter Pro and InstallerVISE (both were bundled 
with NetOctopus) to create packages. That combo did not have a problem with 
aliases.

Don

_______________________________________________
MacOSX-admin mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin

Reply via email to