Mac OS X: calling Self-Contained App Package Ant Tasks with jenkins

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we're trying to create a self-contained application package using the ant packager tasks running on Mac OS X Mountain Lion using Java 1.7.0_07-b10. This works fine when it is executed as a regular build. However, when we try to execute it from a Jenkins build job that is forced to use our "Mac Build Node" everything works fine as well BUT the packager fails to create a DMG-Image. It seems that the Applescript, created by the Packager to build the DMG, has problems to talk to the Finder application. Probably because it is executed remotely.
Here is the Stacktrace:
16:36:55 Using default package resource [script to run after application image is populated] (add package/macosx/sfx-client-post-image.sh to the class path to customize)
16:36:55   Using default package resource [DMG setup script] (add package/macosx/sfx-client-dmg-setup.scpt to the class path to customize)
16:37:09 /var/folders/rk/mtx558t16p1f50_432f2dkq00000gq/T/build6253445559899130246.fxbundler/macosx/sfx-client-dmg-setup.scpt:55:59: execution error: Finder got an error: Application isn‚Äôt running. (-600)
16:37:09 java.io.IOException: Exec failed with code 1 command [[osascript, /var/folders/rk/mtx558t16p1f50_432f2dkq00000gq/T/build6253445559899130246.fxbundler/macosx/sfx-client-dmg-setup.scpt] in unspecified directory
16:37:09      at com.sun.javafx.tools.packager.bundlers.IOUtils.exec(IOUtils.java:131)
16:37:09      at com.sun.javafx.tools.packager.bundlers.IOUtils.exec(IOUtils.java:107)
16:37:09      at com.sun.javafx.tools.packager.bundlers.IOUtils.exec(IOUtils.java:101)
16:37:09      at com.sun.javafx.tools.packager.bundlers.MacDMGBundler.buildDMG(MacDMGBundler.java:356)
16:37:09      at com.sun.javafx.tools.packager.bundlers.MacDMGBundler.bundle(MacDMGBundler.java:80)
16:37:09      at com.sun.javafx.tools.packager.PackagerLib.generateNativeBundles(PackagerLib.java:452)
16:37:09      at com.sun.javafx.tools.packager.PackagerLib.generateDeploymentPackages(PackagerLib.java:435)
16:37:09      at com.sun.javafx.tools.ant.DeployFXTask.execute(DeployFXTask.java:215)I'd like to know if this is a known problem or a general limitation of the packager (or the way DMG creation works in OS X) ... OR if there is anything that I can do/configure/change to make it execute correctly when called via ssh on a remote mac?
Thanks in advance!
Jens

Apple script is used to style dmg installer (position icons, etc.).
This is unavoidable step unless you will only build .app and generate .dmg on your own.
It should still work over ssh if you log as a same user on the desktop on the build system.
Finder can not initialize if it can not display. We use Hudson in house to do builds and they are building .dmg bundles fine as long as build slaves
have same user logged in on desktop on the slave node. I assume similar should work for Jenkins but i have not tried myself.
Otherwise, you can do custom dmg along these lines:
- create .dmg image once from manual build
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