chunkPackage???

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2 total messages Started by Jack Gidding Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:07

#1532

Author: Jack Gidding
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:07

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Hello all,

I am trying to split an Installer package into several chunks using  
/NextAdmin/Installer.app/chunkPackage. Unfortunately, I continually  
get the message:

destPkg: Undefined variable.

immediately before chunker croaks.  Has anyone encountered this  
and/or fixed their script?

Oh, BTW, I am using NeXTSTEP 3.0.

Thanks

Jack Gidding
Reuters
jack@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com

Re: chunkPackage??? (workaround)

#1782

Author: Kate Smith
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:42

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In article <3756@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com>  
jack@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Jack Gidding) writes:
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to split an Installer package into several chunks using  
> /NextAdmin/Installer.app/chunkPackage. Unfortunately, I continually  
> get the message:
> 
> destPkg: Undefined variable.
> 
> immediately before chunker croaks.  Has anyone encountered this  
> and/or fixed their script?
> 
> Oh, BTW, I am using NeXTSTEP 3.0.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jack Gidding
> Reuters
> jack@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com

Jack, 
There is a bug in /NextAdmin/Installer.app/chunkPackage which exhibits  
this behaviour when you don't use the -d option, or if the argument to -d  
is ".".

The fix is to change chunkPackage as follows:

117c117
<     set destDir = .				# OLD
---
>     set destDir = `/bin/pwd`		# NEW

A workaround is to always use the -d option with an absolute pathname.

I hope this helps you and others,
Kate Smith
NeXT Developer Support

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