jaharmi: I can’t directly credit DreamHost for any installer success achieved today.
jaharmi: And I believe I have made progress on creating an initial minimal profile and storing it in the right place. Cautiously optimistic.
jaharmi: @bwyatt I agree, but I pay more attention to this on the desktop than the iPhone. I’d be happy for automatic downloads, optional installs.
jaharmi: I had to make two different metapackages, one per installer, but I’m feeling more positive now.
jaharmi: @GlennF And here I was, grumbling, because iPhone apps don’t update automatically the way podcasts do.
jaharmi: @ptone I’m certainly going to be driven to something soon.
jaharmi: Okay, I created an Info.plist for one of the sub-installers, re-added it, and that did not immediately improve matters for this metapackage.
jaharmi: I bet PackageMaker won’t build these sub-packages with my metapackage because they have .info instead of #%$&! Info.plist files inside them.
jaharmi: @cortig There was all sorts of interesting response rate stuff I picked up in my survey design undergrad classwork.
jaharmi: @glarizza I can, but only my own sub-packages end up in the metapackage. Others: “No payload could be found. The package will not be built.”
jaharmi: @pmbuko There may or may not be any connection to that.
jaharmi: @acdha Or has problems working across Python 2.3, 2.5.2, and 2.6.1 — which you could run into if you were calling shell, among other things.
jaharmi: @iamleeg I’d throw in documentation and outright bugs as a third and fourth.
jaharmi: @glarizza A non-universal client (installer per arch) for a network device from a vendor, along with associated profiles and other stuff.
jaharmi: @iamleeg I would be happy if some understood Mac OS X installers.
jaharmi: As it turns out, when you’re creating a metapackage by hand, it’s hard to enable/disable options on the fly based on, say, the architecture.
jaharmi: @acdha I think Python makes sense for installer scripts unless you know you need to target lots of different Mac OS X versions.
jaharmi: I can’t believe I’m creating a metapackage by hand with folders and text files.
jaharmi: @arekdreyer Installer-dev posts say you could before 3.0, but it looks like the legacy command line options don’t work through v3.0.4 (179).
jaharmi: I may have to start top-posting. [shudders]