10.4.7 PPC and "Package Maker"

Just FYI - discovered this AM that none of my Package Maker projects open subsequent to installing 10.4.7 on a G4, and the app will not launch on its own either.
The crash log reports a missing resource from PrivateFrameworks. I performed all the usual precautionary steps prior to and after the update. I'm dowloading the latest dev tools to install in hopes that this will resurrect it.

Just an update, in case anyone else has the same problem: the re-installation (i.e., updating to the latest dev tools) has restored normalcy.

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Bob

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Just realized that you said the following:
The packages just get copied to the HD.
It sounds like you've made a installer package that's installing the installer packages.
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I have 2 LaCie Hard Drives (500GB & 750GB) that I'd like to use for backing up my 2 laptops and for storing photo and music files.
When I got the MacBook Pro, I partitioned the 500GB drive into 3 volumes and used SuperDuper! to make "bootable" copies of the MBP on one volume, theiBook on one volume, and put photo files on the third. I don't know/can't remember how I dealt with the directions below from Disk Utility and I fear I may have done the impossible or at least done the wrong thing.
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#2 - I can easily delete one or the other laptop backup from the 500 LaCie and put it on the virgin 750 and partiton it - problem is, is there a way to know how I partitioned the 500 HD so I won't have to redo it -I don't want to have to recopy the thousands of photo files already on the HD. If I knew how it was partitioned - Intel or PPC - I could just delete the appropriate laptop and move it to the other LaCie, assuming I have to.
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Mrs H

So "To use a volume to start up a PowerPC-based Mac, choose the Apple partition scheme." really means it will work for my Intel MBP too?
Yes.
Is there a way to tell if that is what I already choose?
Select the existing drive in the Disk Utility and find the Partition Map Scheme text at the bottom of the window.
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I have a 2.4GHz DP Power Mac G5(ppc) and want to know if buying a new graphics card

I need an editing computer and don't have the money to buy a new $1500 or so system. I have a 2.4GHz DP Power Mac G5 (ppc) and want to know if it would be worth buying a new graphics card and more RAM. I'm looking at around a $300 or so upgrade. I am saving for a new computer but need a computer to edit videos for a job I have NOW. I am currently editing on a intel core duo laptop with 6 G of RAM, the computer is taking a real beating and would also like to know if the upgrade would make the G5 run faster than the laptop I am using now.

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It won't make the G5 run much faster, but we need more info please.
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Type:    Display
Bus:    PCI
Slot:    SLOT-1
VRAM (Total):    256 MB
Vendor:    nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:    0x0092
Revision ID:    0x00a1
ROM Revision:    2152.2
Displays:
VGA Display:
Resolution:    1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Depth:    32-bit Color
Core Image:    Supported
Main Display:    Yes
Mirror:    Off
Online:    Yes
Quartz Extreme:    Supported
Display:
Status:    No display connected
And which exact G5 please.
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto *but not including the Serial#*...
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Quad
Machine Model: PowerMac11,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 4
CPU Speed: 2.5 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 10 GB
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I was planning on letting MA transfer everything, and going from there.
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Hi,
Created an installer i.e, meta package using package maker tool. I want to prevent downgrading of the application or package on the target/installed volume.
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Thanks for the help provided.

Hi,
Created an installer i.e, meta package using package maker tool. I want to prevent downgrading of the application or package on the target/installed volume.
Problem is, if there is a newer version of app and when I try to install any older version, then it does not throw any error message to the end user and replaces the existing newer version with the older version of app, which should not happen. But, if I check the package version using version comparison of Package maker tool, that works fine with flat packages i.e, with the .pkg files. So, I need the solution for metapackages(.mpkg) and want to prevent downgrading of app for metapackages. I am not getting any solutions for this. Can someone guide me on this?
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I am using the following platforms:
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Hi,
Thanks for your prompt reply. I tried that out.. I have a directory called "customer" under which I have my interfaces,bean implementation class and the J2EE application client.
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Package maker question...

Hi everyone!
I've got a question about doing an install with package maker. Everything is basically setup and running ok...but I noticed if I install a new version on top of an old version it will update the files of the same name but it will not just replace the entire app. For example version 1.0 has files A, B, C, D. And let's say version 2.0 has files A, B, E, F, G. The files that are the same (A, B) will be updated. The new files (F, G) will be added. But the old files that are no longer needed (C, D) will not be removed. So basically my question is how do you get the install of the new to completely overwrite the old?
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Hi Niel!
Thanks for the reply! If that's the way to do it is with a script then I know which route to go!
Reg...

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I need to include a license evaluation process in package maker application. That is, if an user enters an valid unlock key or provides a valid license file in the package maker installer, I need to install the specific .pkg file in the user's machine. Else, I need to prompt the user that "Invalid key entered, please enter a valid unlock key or license file". This is same as license validation process in windows environment. But searched a lot about including this process in package maker, couldn't find a way to make it here.
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for some internal tests on my DAW I need to strip out the ppc and 32bit code from an AudioUnit I bought.
Using Lipo I stripped off the ppc and i386 architectures from the Contents/MacOs/Executable file, that now is only x86_64
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data 'STR ' (1000, purgeable) {
          $"1650 5350 6175 6469 6F77 6172 653A 2050"            /* .------------- - */
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data 'STR ' (1001, purgeable) {
          $"0445 6368 6F"                                       /* .---- */
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          $"5653 5432 4155 456E 7472 7900"                      /* -----------. */
data 'thng' (1000, "------------: --- ----") {
          $"6175 6678 5050 6543 5053 5061 0000 0000"            /* aufxPPeCPSPa.... */
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          $"5354 5220 03E9 0000 0000 0000 0001 0001"            /* STR .?.......... */
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          $"0006 1000 0000 646C 6C65 03E8 0008"                 /* ......dlle.?.. */

The .r file (tha compiled becomes .rsrc) is a legacy mechanism to translate a textual resource file .r into the data in the resource fork in the old, pre-OS X Mac way, but that still many use because it makes it simpler to change few things without recompiling everything.
What I showed is the result of a sort of decompiler of .rsrc files, called DeRez, but like a decompiler it makes it easier for me to read than in an hex editor and it helps in some way, but I cannot get back the .r source.
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Package maker problems

hi there i have a package maker issue that i am sure is either esily resolved because im overlooking something or unexplicaply dificult and i dont even reolise. now i am in no way schooled on how to use this software but common sense has allowed me to build an installer to install files to my desktop no problem. my problem arises when its time to install it on another user or on a diferent computer. because the destination folders i have specified are native to my environent and include my user in the filepath when i then put it on a diferent machine my user no longer exists and ofcourse the files do not end u in the corresponding folders. an example of a filepath i used would have been ' Macintosh HDD/Users/myuser/Desktop ' but the 'myuser' section of course is different on every machine so i gues my question is how do i set the destination path to work on any user on any machine? i tried /Users/User/Desktop and other combinations but like i said i dont realy know what im doing and its verry hard to find info on the subject.
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james fromcanterbury wrote:
hehe thankyou for your quick response .
i fear it will take me much more than a couple of weeks to master this however much i want it to come quickly.
my next question is rarther embarassing and highlights how little i know . how do i make a sandbox directory do i use patchmaker or do i need to download sandbox or is it part of xcode?
I was just using a generic term. The idea is that you need to setup a development area for installation that mirrors where you are installing. It is just a directory (of directories). It is important to keep it separate from your actual software you are building. Always copy things into the sandbox.
The problem is Package Maker. It is one of Apple's worst programs. One of the things you have to do before installing is change ownership of the sandbox directory to root. That makes dealing with your development directory a royal hassle. It is best to script all parts of a Package Maker installation.
also if you can point me in the direction of any literature on the subject i will be glad to read it!
That would be a great thing to have. Alas, it doesn't exist. There is (may be) documentation inside Package Maker. Some of it may include the command-line tools. There is also a man page for the command-line tools themselves. Neither is actually correct, or, at least, neither was correct the last time I used them. Use them as suggestions rather than documenation. Package Maker is just really buggy and hard to use. No easy answers there. Plus, it changes frequently so my 2-3 year old knowledge of how it used to work probably isn't accurate anymore. It really is trial and error.
In fact, in my last project, I just wrote a bootstrapping installer application. I included a preference pane inside the application bundle of the application. When the application started up, it checked for the preference pane, authenticated if required, and installed exactly what it needed. That was easier than using Package Maker.

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