AFP548 - Topic: 10.5.7 Combo installs only partially with InstaDMG rev 179

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May 21, 2009 at 9:00 am #376241

metajam
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I noticed that Mail.app was crashing in my 10.5.7 images. After some time I realized that the Mail.app was stuck at version 3.4 (928) while the OS and frameworks had been updated to the 10.5.7 versions. Mail.app should be version 3.6 (935) in 10.5.7

I have retried this several times and discovered that the 10.5.6 Combo does update Mail.app to version 3.5 (930.3) from my base image, but the 10.5.7 does not (with InstaDMG).

Pulling apart the package I can see that a new Mail.app is indeed included in the Bom but it is omitted when installer processes the package for some reason. I notice that Mail.app and a few others are singled out in the PackageInfo file for some relocation search. Perhaps this is the problem.

The same 10.5.7 Combo package works fine when manually installed into a running, booted system.

I will try the new chroot version of InstaDMG and see if it solves it.

Anyone else stumbled on this? :question:

May 21, 2009 at 12:31 pm #376243

metajam
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I should add that everything [i]appeared to be fine [/i]with 10.5.7 and this Mail.app problem went undetected for nearly a week.

The old Mail.app runs in 10.5.7 – but crashes when particular messages with attachments are viewed. This is an old mail bug.

May 21, 2009 at 4:41 pm #376248

larkost
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Try it with rev188 that has a new trick that should get around this.

But do not grab anything after that at the moment (they are intermediate ones while I make some large changes)

May 22, 2009 at 3:23 am #376254

metajam
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rev188 does seem to work ok with the 10.5.7 Combo – (although rev188 seems to have problem with createUser.pkg. I will discuss that in the ‘New Version’ thread.)

Mail.app is now the correct version and no longer crashes with the particular attachments.

May 22, 2009 at 12:04 pm #376258

Rusty Myers
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I had issues with 188, but it’s working for me with revision 187.

May 22, 2009 at 7:04 pm #376259

typofonic
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How do I check out rev 187?

“svn checkout http://instadmg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ instadmg-read-only” only checks out the newest version and I can’t seem to download it from google code?

May 22, 2009 at 7:23 pm #376261

walt
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I use svnx to access the SVN repository. Nice GUI and easy to use.

http://code.google.com/p/svnx/

Just put in the InstaDMG SVN address into svnx: http://instadmg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Once you connect to the repository you just select the revision you want and press the ‘Checkout’ button in the top left. Then save it to somewhere on your HD.

May 22, 2009 at 7:41 pm #376262

typofonic
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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: walt[/u][p]I use svnx to access the SVN repository. Nice GUI and easy to use.

http://code.google.com/p/svnx/

Just put in the InstaDMG SVN address into svnx: http://instadmg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Once you connect to the repository you just select the revision you want and press the ‘Checkout’ button in the top left. Then save it to somewhere on your HD.[/p][/QUOTE]

Thanks a lot metajam! I got it working perfectly, using another GUI client though (Versions) – svnx froze everytime I tried to connect… It needed something installed.

/ Anders

May 22, 2009 at 7:42 pm #376263

walt
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Yeah on Leopard I had to change the svn path from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin then it worked.

May 22, 2009 at 8:25 pm #376264

Rusty Myers
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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: typofonic[/u][p]How do I check out rev 187?

“svn checkout http://instadmg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ instadmg-read-only” only checks out the newest version and I can’t seem to download it from google code?[/p][/QUOTE]

FYI
svn checkout -r 187 http://instadmg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ instadmg-read-only

May 22, 2009 at 9:03 pm #376266

typofonic
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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: thespider[/u][p][QUOTE][u]Quote by: typofonic[/u][p]How do I check out rev 187?

“svn checkout http://instadmg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ instadmg-read-only” only checks out the newest version and I can’t seem to download it from google code?[/p][/QUOTE]

FYI
svn checkout -r 187 http://instadmg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ instadmg-read-only[/p][/QUOTE]

Thanks! Exactly a command like that I was looking for!

July 20, 2009 at 10:06 am #376658

alantrewartha
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thanks for this thread – i only noticed this problem when Word refused to work at all

July 20, 2009 at 11:21 am #376659

alantrewartha
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the code i got with that checkout command

svn checkout -r 187 http://instadmg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ instadmg-read-only

produced the same issues. Mail is still on 3.5 (the version in the 10.5.6 install disk that came with the nehalem macs) and not 3.6 which you get if you run the combo update manually. (and Word is still messed up)

July 20, 2009 at 7:42 pm #376662

larkost
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The chroot system was not put in until rev196, so rev179 should have this problem.

I would recommend using HEAD (rev210 was the last change to the trunk, later ones at the moment have only been for the development of version 2). To do this remove the ‘-r number’ from the command.

July 21, 2009 at 9:18 am #376666

alantrewartha
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cheers for that. i did try that quite quickly after that last failure, and the OS seemed fine, but appeared to fail installing some of my CustomPKG folders. i’m going to run it again to check as my mac was in a bit of a state at that point…
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