Danno,
You are absolutely correct on this one. In my build script since I used
native=“all”, .app, .dmg and .pkg were all generated. When I use pkg to install
the app, it actually just updated .app under my build folder instead of
/Applications. pkgutil —pkg-info still think application is installed under
/Applications. Once I deleted .app under my build folder. Then pkg works as
expected.
Thanks,
Tai
> On Aug 10, 2015, at 12:23 AM, Danno Ferrin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Mac installer is weird. The install location in the installer is at best a
> strongly worded suggestion to the pkgutil code and I don't completely
> understand when it follows it and when it doesn't.
>
> What I have seen in my development is that if the package has been installed
> and or run anywhere else on the machine then the pkgutil will install the app
> into that location as an update to the existing application. So in my case I
> had an instance of the app that I had run from my source control build
> directory, and pkgutil chose to update that instance of the application
> rather than one I had in /Applicaitons that I drug in from a DMG.
>
> It appears that this is driven by the CFBundleIdentifier, so changing the
> identifier may get a clean install.
>
> Running pkgutil --pkg-info <PKGID> may tell you where it is installed or
> where it thinks it is installed.
>
>
>> On Aug 7, 2015, at 9:11 PM, Tai Hu <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I used JavaFX ant tasks to create all native packages on Mac OS X (JDK
>> 8u51 on latest Mac OS X). Both .app and .dmg packages are working
>> flawlessly. However, for PKG package, the very first installation was
>> successful and my application show up in /Applications folder. However, if I
>> delete my app from /Applications and use PKG package to install again, the
>> installation process will always run successfully. However, my application
>> did not show up inside of /Applications. I already tried to use pkgutil
>> —forget <application id> and rebooted my Mac. It is still the same result.
>> Installation of PKG package are always successful. But my application is not
>> installed under /Applications folder.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tai
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