InstaUp2Date and iLife 09

[toyotronic]

First of all, I would like to thank everyone involved in this, it is absolutely amazing, I am learning so much from this. Also the people on this forum are very patient, which again is really great.
I have been using Instadmg for Base 10.6 images, they work fine. Now I’ve been trying InstaUp2Date and it works great too, I get a 10.6.3 image with all the updates out of the 10.6_vanilla.catalog file, but I can’t get iLife ’09 installed.
I have taken the iLife ’09.mpkg from the original iLife 09 Install DVD and copied it into InstaDMG/InstallerFiles/InstaUp2DatePackages, then I have updated the 10.6_vanilla.catalog file, looking like this,

Third Party Software:
iLife ’09 /Users/horst/instadmg/InstallerFiles/InstaUp2DatePackages/iLife ’09.mpkg sha1:d58806ffbea052b45f0826d25ff41322333f6305

what I get is this in the terminal,
Looking for iLife ’09
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./instadmg/AddOns/InstaUp2Date/instaUp2Date.py”, line 664, in
main()
File “./instadmg/AddOns/InstaUp2Date/instaUp2Date.py”, line 647, in main
thisController.parseFile(catalogFilePath)
File “./instadmg/AddOns/InstaUp2Date/instaUp2Date.py”, line 224, in parseFile
additionalCacheFolders = userSuppliedPKGFolderPath
File “./instadmg/AddOns/InstaUp2Date/instaUp2Date.py”, line 444, in __init__
if not os.path.exists(cacheFilePath):
File “/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/genericpath.py”, line 18, in exists
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

Is it wrong to place the iLife.mpkg into InstaDMG/InstallerFiles/InstaUp2DatePackages, and where do I tell InstaUp2Date to install iLife 09?

Thank you

[Allister Banks]

Hey there,
Please post which version of instaUp2Date and instadmg you are using, unless you downloaded the zip from code.google.com. Your catalog entry probably isn’t the issue.
I am working on documentation so I sound less as if I’m spreading my feelings that it works like voodoo sometimes, but that’s just because I need to learn more about the code. There’s a lot better exception handling recently, but the error you’re running into is one of the ones where I ‘punt’ and try it as a DMG instead, meaning there’s no need to pull the mpkg out. And you should be able to put it anywhere, but I choose either the /Caches/InstaUp2DateCache or /Installer/InstaUp2DatePackages folders.
Give it another shot(you’ll want to re-do the checksum as well, since this is the dmg now) and let us know. Thanks,
Allister

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