InstallerChoices.xml applying to every package

[cassian]

Ahoy,

I’ve been lurking around the place for a year or so, but finally “got serious” about building images with InstaDMG/InstaUp2Date and have run into a slight issue.

I’ve got an installerchoices.xml file that appears to be working fine for the base OS X install, but is also being applied to every other package in my build train, causing them to fail (since the options aren’t there to be found).

Build machine is an iMac12,1 2.5GHz i5, 8GB RAM, running 10.6.8
InstaDMG version is 1.6rc1 (r425)
InstaUp2Date version is r414
Image I’m trying to build is 10.6.8

InstallerChoices.xml

<array>
     <string>PrinterDriversGroup</string>
     <string>AdditionalFonts</string>
     <string>X11</string>
     <string>LanguageTranslations</string>
     <string>Rosetta</string>
     <string>QuickTimePlayer7</string>
</array>

The base OS installs fine, but all my subsequent packages show up in the debug log with the following error:

Unable to get choice for identifier 'PrinterDriversGroup'.

What I need is for installerchoices.xml to apply only to the OS X install, and not to any subsequent packages. I’ve tried with installerchoices.xml both in the BaseOS folder, and referenced in the catalog file – same result in both cases. It feels like there’s something dead-simple I’m missing, but I just can’t work it out. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Allister Banks]

Hey cassian,

That’s the first time I’ve heard of that happening! InstallerChoices.xml might only work for the base OS with instaUp2Date, which is the most tested scenario, I can’t recall when’s the last time I tested it with just instaDMG.bash, but don’t recall that ever not working. When running instaUp2Date, I usually put it in the same folder with the baseOS, and put the entire path in my catalog file, like so:

Installer Choices File: /Volumes/Boot/instadmg434/InstallerFiles/BaseOS/InstallerChoices-106.xml sha1:b52bd76193e6ce2a642b4d69b809570883a1f304

Please post your catalog file if you’re still having issues.
Allister

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