Newbie catalog question

[libwolf]

Hello All,

I’m having trouble getting catalog files to chain.

I’ve searched the forums & gone through the documentation but can’t find out how.

I’ve got three catalog files – 10.7_Vanilla.catalog, LionExtras.catalog and Software.catalog, which all reside in ~/Instadmg/addons/InstaUp2Date/Catalog files

LionExtras.catalog has include-file: 10.7_vanilla.catalog, Software has include-file: LionExtras.catalog

I was under the impression that just by having that include-file in LionExtras and Software.catalog that it’d get added? Or do I have to run a different command than
[code]sudo ./instaUp2Date.py -p 10.7_vanilla.catalog –instadmg-scratch-folder /Volumes/OSX[/code]?

Thanks in advance,

[Allister Banks]

Thanks for checking in with us! Keep ’em coming.
You run the catalog that includes other catalogs, not the other way around. Software would be the one you want AFAICT. If you need a quicker response, please do join us in the ##osx-server IRC chat in the sticky for this forum.
Another slight discrepancy(if you’re pasting it verbatim) is the lack of equal sign between the scratch folder flag and the destination, I know its not a standard way to pass options to a command. Next time please share what’s not working and what is; if I can’t tell when you experience your error it’s hard to see what’s going wrong. Thanks,

Allister

[libwolf]

Thanks for the prompt reply!

I don’t understand what you mean by the lack of an equal sign. Should the command actually be [code] sudo ./instaUp2Date.py -p Software.catalog –instadmg-scratch-folder = /Volumes/OSX[/code] ?

I’ve run it again with your tip about the catalog. All of my packages installed fine – apart from my CreateLionUser_macadmin. Is there an issue with underscores?

How does this forum prefer that output be posted? I attempted a google docs link – only to be informed it was spam.

Thanks

[Allister Banks]

[code] sudo ./instaUp2Date.py -p Software.catalog –instadmg-scratch-folder=/Volumes/OSX[/code]

Please look at (and feel free to post a link to) the relevant part of your debug log, usually that reveals a lot. This particular geeklog forum has issues with false positives when blocking spam, one workaround is to replace http in a link with ht*p, or use the formatting bar to explicitly put tags around a link.

Allister

[libwolf]

With your help, I got all of my packages to install, except CreateLionUser_macadmin.

it looks like it ran :-

[code] Parsing the catalog files for Software
CreateLionUser_macadmin

Finding and validating the sources for Software
CreateLionUser_macadmin – found based on guessed name and verified in less than one second

Working on folder 06 CreateLionUser_macadmin (09:01:36)
Installing CreateLionUser_macadmin.pkg
Folder 06 CreateLionUser_macadmin done (09:01:57)
[/code]

But when I mount the output.dmg, /Users only has Shared in it.

Am I missing a step?

[bw38]

Try copying it to a partition and boot to that partition. See if you can log in.

[libwolf]

Ahh ha! Worked perfectly!

Now to try on some different pieces of hardware!

Thanks very much!

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