Installer Choices for anything but the OS w/ InstaUp2Date

[Allister Banks]

Hey folks,
Does anyone have installer choices working in an InstaUp2Date work flow for other installs besides the OS? I used to be able to throw the mpkg install for Office or iLife in a dmg with the xml file that had the choices I wanted applied, but that’s not working now. I’ll be diving through the code for clues as well and will report back if I find anything. Thanks,

Allister

[Tim Sutton]

That’s precisely the method I’ve been using for a custom Office and iLife install: wrap the mpkg with InstallerChoices.xml in a dmg. My lab image uses both of these along with a slimmed OS 10.6 install.

I’d have to double-check, but I’m fairly certain I’m running on the latest svn, at least with Karl’s last commits.

Have you tried skipping the .dmg and just leaving the xml in the same folder as the package? That should also work.

[Allister Banks]

Hey cygnus,

I really appreciate your response. I am not using folders, since we’d like everything to move solely to an InstaUp2Date-backed workflow. I would imagine it does still work when calling instadmg.bash manually, but I guess certain flags being passed to the process by InstaUp2Date are causing it to overlook installerchoices.xml files. I’ll see if I can’t monkey with the code until it does go back to applying choices properly. Even still, going forward it may make sense as a design decision to have a major mpkg(perhaps finally utilizing the ‘supporting discs’ designation) per catalog file so the choices file listed at the top gets applied to that specific install. Thanks,

Allister

[Allister Banks]

Gotit!
It’s been there for a while, you add ‘path to the installerchoices file’ to the end of the mpkg you’d like it applied to. Ex.:
[code]MSOffice2008Installer /instadmg/InstallerFiles/InstaUp2DatePackages/Office Installer.mpkg sha1:06f726c6f6eb870ccbb777d5a1adcd67892cf88e /instadmg/Caches/InstaUp2DateCache/InstallerChoices.xml[/code]

Phew! Now on to the other maintenance tasks.

Allister

[Tim Sutton]

Wow! Wish I’d known that months ago. Another good excuse to dig through the codebase more often. Guess I’ll refactor my custom iLife and Office catalogs…

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