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dummy receipts, maybe a question for miles

  • February 6, 2009
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Another one,

Maybe for Miles,

Can you index a dummy receipts, i am guess that because it contains no contents that it cannot be indexed?

I have tried to index a dummy receipt, Casper Admin says it has indexed and it then shows up as YES to index and i can then select the allow uninstall, however in the jss web interface both Casper admin and when i create a policy the dummy packages shows up as not being indexed and thus cannot be uninstalled.

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    • milesleacy
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    • February 6, 2009

    I would imagine you could index the dummy package, however there's nothing
    in it to index. Perhaps that's giving Casper's index and uninstall systems
    a fit.
    You might get around this by creating
    /Library/DummyPackages/myDummyPackage.txt and rolling it up in your dummy
    package. This will give Casper something to index, and hopefully avoid the
    behavior you're seeing with indexing and uninstalling.

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    • tlarkin
    • Honored Contributor
    • February 6, 2009

    What if you just put a simple script in the package, like

    #!/bin/bash

    echo "hello world"

    exit done

    I mean that would be harmless, could you index it then?


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    • milesleacy
    • Valued Contributor
    • February 6, 2009

    I suppose either would work, but I'd have to test to be sure. It's my best
    guess that the problem is that there's nothing in the package to index. Only testing or a comment from JAMF would verify my assumption.
    Out of curiosity, why do you need to index dummy packages? All they will
    install is a receipt. You know what that receipt is called and where it is
    saved. If you need to get rid of it, why not use rm -R
    /Library/Receipts/nameOfDummyPackage.pkg ?

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