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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: bw38[/u][p]You don’t necessarily have to package FireFox unless you’re looking to customize it. The DMG that contains FireFox will be accepted by instadmg. It already knows what to do with it.[/p][/QUOTE]

Yeah. I was having a custom home page set but i’ll just do the standard instal I think in the interests of a clean image. I’m working my way through the other bits of the catalog now to make sure nothing else was doing the same thing further down the line. Tedious but a requirement. I’m kinda getting the hang of things now after a solid months trial and error and am actually getting close to a decent final product.

Tris

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Ok. after a little work i’ve discovered it as my (well the Composer pkg actually) Firefox installer that has been removing the folders… I’m just double checking this now. I used Composer and it’s Firefox preset to do a firefox pgk. I’ll make a new one minus any User folder cruft.

Thanks for all the help with this.

Cheers

Tris

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I feel like a right plonker now, seeing how easy it is. Am just baking one now using this method. Woot!

Bows most humbly…

Tristan

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: dead2sin

Specifically pay attention to this bit at the top of that catalog file:

[code]include-file: 10.6_vanilla.catalog
[/code]

And you can chain them together:

[code]include-file: common.catalog
[/code]

So you string them along as such. in BW’s example, Labsoftware would have include-file: CompanyBaseSoftware.catalog. CompanyBaseSoftware would contain include-file: Base_Settings. And so on until you get back to 10.6_vanilla.

Nate[/p][/QUOTE]

As always, genius. I read the guide but totally overlooked that line of code. Now I fully understand chaining the catalogs and why. Makes perfect sense to use the vanilla’s as they get updated via the svn. Thanks a bunch. Bit of a Eureka moment here…

Regards

Tristan

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I threw caution to wind and made a CS5 pgk without all those files and it worked fine. It’s just a few settings that didn’t translate but as you point out here they can be placed in the user template which I must now get working correctly. I’m slowly working my way through my catalog line by line to find out which line is causing the issues with the account setup and the missing folders but i’ve established it’s not CS5! I’m at the same time re-doing the Composer packages to remove the user stuff. Busy busy.

BTW I really am grateful for all the help.

Cheers

Tristan

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or maybe i have a totally wrong idea of it???

[tristan_mason]

Thanks for that but i’m still unsure how, functionally you use multiple catalogs to produce a single DMG in the output folder? How in the terminal do I run 3 catalogs one after the other to produce a single DMG file?

Cheers

Tristan

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oh yes i know, i really should get out more often…

[tristan_mason]

I’m thinking I should start a new thread… anyhow,

I’ve just made a pgk for CS5 with Composer and it’s diff file for CS5 and it has a bunch of support stuff in the Users/Admin and it does look like a lot of it is needed. Application Support stuff etc etc. I get the very strong feeling that if I was to delete it the suite would collapse. I do know that it works when I put it in the build train but I haven’t established if it is the package that is causing my lost folders in the user accounts. I should know by the days end however. It’s the old process of elimination trick today.

Cheers

Tristan

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I’m re-doing all my Composer generated pgks and making sure they are cruft free. I’ll report back when i’m done and let you know of this solved the missing folders issue. As I stated in another post MS Office 2011 only works when I place the Plist files in the created user folder not the template so i’m hoping this will take care of that issue as well.

Regards

Tris

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I’m thinking the i’ll use ARD to push out Sophos and Deep Freeze post imaging and deployment. When Sophos provides us with an update that works then i’ll be able to pop it in the instaDMG build train. we live in hope…

Cheers

Tristan

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this refers to the google link in the post but i cant quote it as the site thinks it’s spam…

Well I had a little look see at this link and oh how I laughed. The best response from Sophos dev team being “The issue is an Apple issue, and we are not the only piece of software which will trigger it. Well that makes it alright then… A bit like a few of our Toyotas are bursting into flames bit it’s ok as a few Fords are doing it too.

Anyway they do say there are two fixes coming our way, one a quick fix, update soonish and another total fix in a major release somewhere down the line. I guess we wait or use another product.

Tris

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Goldberg[/u][p]I’ve seen Sophos Anti-Virus cause a pop-up windows asking for System Events. That windows had a browse button that I can point to /System/Library/Core Services/

Hope that helps[/p][/QUOTE]

Ok after a little waiting it was indeed Sophos that has been causing the issue with the “Where is system events” dialog box etc. I took it out of the build train and hey presto, problem fixed. Thanks for that. As I stated above I had the same problem with the monolithic images I made for for this year so it’s been a thorn in my side for the whole damn year. Now I need to make a package for Sophos that doesn’t do it! back to the drawing board… If anyone has a Sophos installer solution that works with instadmg please sing out. Meanwhile i’ll soldier on.

Regards

Tristan

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: dead2sin[/u][p]

Sorry about the rant 😀 I spent several months learning how to build clean images with composer + instaDMG and while it was tedious when I was first getting my feet wet, it is now really easy for me to spot junk files that are not needed. It is really important to be careful about what you let on your images. Having stuff on there that shouldn’t be there can lead to some REALLY weird problems (I’ve had more then my fair share, it is not fun).

Nate[/p][/QUOTE]

No need to apologise Nate, it’s all important stuff to me and helps me move right along with the whole instadmg process. I’m a Composer virgin so any tips on using it are greatly appreciated. Does this apply to the packages made with the Diff files or are they “clean” and free from this issue? I ask as I have used packages from these Diff files and now wondering… are they that good?

My image so far still has the missing folders “sites” and “public” in the user account that gets generated. I’m really not suer what’s going on with it. All the software apps work as expected but something is wrong. I’m going to go back and check all my Composer and Package Maker packages now and see how much and if there is any user cruft to remove. I’m hoping that’ll solve it.

Cheers

Tristan

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: dead2sin[/u][p]In the FCS3 Package, does it have a /Users folder? I delete all /Users folders from my composer packages except of a program puts stuff into /Users/Shared (that is ok).

Nate[/p][/QUOTE]

Do you delete any user folder stuff as a matter of course for all your pgk’s created with Composer? I have created quite a few for various apps and have had the same issue as described here (the missing folders). I was not sure why it was happening but soldiered on. At present with my build train nearly complete I am only missing the “Sites” and “Public” folders (it has been as bad as only the “Library” folder appearing) so I wasn’t really stressing about it too much but now i’m looking at going back through all the pgk’s and re-creating them minus any “User” content and seeing if this will resolve the issue. It’s just a lot of work, sigh but it now “feels” like the right thing to do in the interests of getting things right.

Cheers

Tristan

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