Re: [AD] MacOS X dynamic linking and enduser package

[Angelo Mottola <a.mottola@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > About the package generation, mkpkg.sh needs root priviledges;
> > I hope this is not a problem with the compile farm...
>
> Getting root priviledges on a shared system... can't you use fakeroot
> or similar trickery?

Just reexamined the script source and removed the need to run it as  
root. It was requiring it due to some old "sudo" calls which I thought  
were needed, but the script still works after I removed them.

> [...]
> Creating compressed disk image
> ....................................................................... 
> ....................................................................... 
> ..........................
> created: temp.dmg
> Initialized /dev/rdisk1 as a 4 MB HFS Plus volume
> hdiutil: detach: "disk1" detached successfully.
> hdid: mounting "temp.dmg" failed: no mountable file systems.
> cp: missing destination file
> Try `cp --help' for more information.
> reading ./misc/pkgreadme._tx
> writing /readme.txt
> Error writing ASCII output file
> [...]

After spending some time examining the problem, I found a possible  
answer in the hdid man page:

       If you get the error "no mountable filesystems" and  you   
believe  that
       the image does contain mountable filesystems, you may be running  
into a
       problem common when remotely logged in to a machine with no one   
logged
       in  on console.  diskarbitrationd won't mount removable media  
until the
       SystemUIServer process is running for the console user  (in  a   
managed
       environment,  it  controls what can be mounted).  On a  
non-managed sys-
       tem, the boolean AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin can be  safely   
set  in
       /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.DiskArbitra-
       tion.diskarbitrationd.plist.  You can also manually  mount   
filesystems
       in the image after attaching the image with -nomount.

So I've changed the script a bit and applied changes to CVS. Now it  
should work remotely... let me know if the problem persists!

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Angelo Mottola
a.mottola@xxxxxxxxxx