On Mar 7, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
On Mar 7, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Charles Moad wrote:
I am trying to make a mpkg using PackageMaker that includes a combination of frameworks wrapped as pkg's, and bdist_mpkg outputs. Each of these pkg's work fine when installed separately, but die when I try running the resulting mpkg. One machine gave me a horribly long stack trace that I think amounted to a NULL pointer and another said, "There was an error in the package (999)" (might not be exact).
Has anybody every been successful doing something similar?
Nesting packages works fine if it's done by bdist_mpkg. I've never tried using PackageMaker on the outside, but I suspect either you did something wrong with PackageMaker, or PackageMaker has bugs. The mpkgs and pkgs that bdist_mpkg outputs are perfectly compliant with the specfiications.
If you put together a minimal example that demonstrates the problem, I'll look at it.
Ok, I just put a minimal example together and it worked fine. It appears you are using PackageMaker incorrectly. By default, it sets its IFPkgFlagComponentDirectory to "..", which means that all of the sub-packages must be siblings of the mpkg. If they are not there, you will get an error 999. PackageMaker does not copy the sub-packages anywhere, you have to do this on your own.
bdist_mpkg creates mpkgs that have an IFPkgFlagComponentDirectory of "Packages", which means it looks *inside* the mpkg for the pkg files. Perhaps you thought that PackageMaker also did this kind of encapsulation by default?
-bob
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