[Pythonmac-SIG] PackageMaker and bdist_mpkg

[Charles Moad]

Sounds like that is probably it.  So I should manually copy the packages 
into the mpkg?  What would be a simple python script to make bdist_mpkg 
do that given a list of pkgs.

Thanks again,

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
> On Mar 7, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
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>> 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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