On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote: > The /usr/bin/installer and the Installer.app can have different > behavior, and if either does happen to change permissions, then it's a > bug in Mac OS X 10.3 (one that looks rather inconsequential). It > absolutely does not have that behavior in 10.4, and it does everything > it should be doing as documented.
I've observed this bug with the Installer application as well. As I said in my original message: > I strongly suspect this is a bug in Apple's installer; Under 10.3, their > documentation claimed that packages wouldn't change the permissions of > existing directories, but this is exactly what happened with the > Appscript Installer 1.0 (10.4 appears to fix this). > Where did that package come from anyway? I certainly didn't build it. It came with Python23Compat, which you claim to have built: http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/02/02/python23compat/ Nick _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig