[OS X TeX] iinstaller forgets about itself?

[Daniel Becker]

Am 25.12.2006 um 13:33 schrieb Gerben Wierda:

> On Dec 25, 2006, at 11:10 , Daniel Becker wrote:
>
>> What is disturbing: When I open texlive.ii2, the Pkg Properties  
>> Panel tells me that no installation is found. But I know it is  
>> there! When I go through the whole installation / configuration  
>> procedure (expert mode), the i-package knows what is just done and  
>> in the Pkg Properties Panel it shows "Same as self" under the  
>> heading installed. But after closing and opening the package  
>> again, I see "no installation found".
>
> It might have been that /Library/i-Installer was never created  
> because you never ran i-Installer from a admin account.

hm. I only use the account "daniel" which is an admin account.

> Hence, the receipt is not written. But you should have gotten a  
> warning panel about that.

could be that I overlooked something written in the logs (?) you can  
watch while i-installer is doing its work. But it is unlikely that I  
pressed some ok-button without reading the message displayed.

> Does /Library/i-Installer exists and what does it contain?

it exists and contains

[noname:/Library/i-Installer/Receipts] daniel% ls -l
total 136
-rw-r--r--   1 501     admin   638 Sep  4 09:42 ImageMagick.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 daniel  admin   435 Nov 24 09:45 bibtool.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 501     admin   440 Sep  4 10:57 cm-super.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 501     admin   429 Jun  8  2006 fondu.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 daniel  admin   437 Nov 24 08:24 freetype2.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 501     admin   445 Sep  4 10:14 ghostscript-8.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 daniel  admin   431 Nov 24 08:22 ii2.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 daniel  admin   432 Nov 24 09:45 jpeg.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 daniel  admin   437 Nov 24 09:44 latex2rtf.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 daniel  admin   434 Nov 24 08:25 libpng.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 daniel  admin   435 Nov 24 09:44 libtiff.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 daniel  admin   619 Nov 24 08:24 libwmf.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 daniel  admin   622 Nov 24 08:33 pfaedit.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 daniel  admin   439 Nov 24 09:45 rtf2latex2e.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 501     admin  1522 Sep  4 10:27 tex.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 daniel  admin   451 Jun  5  2006 wvWare.ii2receipt
-rw-r--r--   1 501     admin   437 Sep  4 11:05 xetex.ii2receipt

to me it looks as if the receipts do not really have something to do  
with the last time I updated the several packages. i updated  
everything november 24 and texlive today. There is no texlive receipt  
above...

[noname:~/Documents/i-Packages] daniel% ls -l
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    9 daniel  staff   306 Nov 24 08:32 ImageMagick.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   10 daniel  staff   340 Nov 24 09:43 bibtool.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   12 daniel  staff   408 Dec 24 14:37 cm-super.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   30 daniel  staff  1020 Nov 24 08:21 deinstalliert_tex.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   10 daniel  staff   340 Nov 24 08:34 fondu.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   10 daniel  staff   340 Nov 24 08:24 freetype2.ii2
drwxr-xr-x    9 daniel  staff   306 Nov 24 09:46 gettext.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   14 daniel  staff   476 Nov 24 08:27 ghostscript-8.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   11 daniel  staff   374 Nov 24 08:22 ii2.ii2
-rw-r--r--    1 daniel  staff   492 Oct 21 13:12 installguide
drwxr-xr-x   10 daniel  staff   340 Nov 24 09:45 jpeg.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   11 daniel  staff   374 Nov 24 09:43 latex2rtf.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   10 daniel  staff   340 Nov 24 08:25 libpng.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   11 daniel  staff   374 Nov 24 09:44 libtiff.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   12 daniel  staff   408 Nov 24 08:24 libwmf.ii2
drwxr-xr-x    9 daniel  staff   306 Nov 24 08:33 pfaedit.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   11 daniel  staff   374 Nov 24 09:43 rtf2latex2e.ii2
drwxr-xr-x   42 daniel  staff  1428 Dec 25 11:13 texlive.ii2
[noname:~/Documents/i-Packages] daniel%

Does this tell you what else might be going on?

Thanks,

daniel




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