OSInstaller fail under Net Boot / works as regular installer

[woggledog]

Morning all.

Am setting up a netboot image, and hitting what appears to be a simple error.

The installer (which works fine as a regular installer for both root and regular admin accounts) is hitting these errors:

Mar 21 15:22:29 localhost OSInstaller[342]: PackageKit: ----- Begin install -----
Mar 21 15:22:29 localhost OSInstaller[342]: PackageKit: request=PKInstallRequest <1 packages, destination=/Volumes/XXXXX>
Mar 21 15:22:29 localhost OSInstaller[342]: PackageKit: packages=( "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Image%20Volume/Packages/TestInstaller.pkg>"
)
Mar 21 15:22:29 localhost OSInstaller[342]: PackageKit: Extracting file://localhost/Volumes/Image%20Volume/Packages/TestInstaller.pkg (destination=/Volumes/XXXX/.PKInstallSandboxManager/1.sandbox/Root/usr/local/bin, uid=0)
Mar 21 15:22:29 localhost OSInstaller[342]: PackageKit: Shoving /Volumes/XXXXX/.PKInstallSandboxManager/1.sandbox/Root (1 items) to /Volumes/XXXXX
Mar 21 15:22:29 localhost OSInstaller[342]: PackageKit: Executing script "./postinstall" in /Volumes/XXXX/.PKInstallSandboxManager/1.sandbox/Scripts/com.acme.TestInstaller.pkg.PdiNFD
Mar 21 15:22:29 localhost OSInstaller[342]: ./postinstall: chmod: /usr/local/bin/com.acme..plist: No such file or directory
Mar 21 15:22:29 localhost OSInstaller[342]: ./postinstall: chown: -R/ usr/local/bin/com.acme..plist: No such file or directory

What the installer does is install several files into /usr/local/bin

and then run a simple postflight.sh that does some chowns and chmods

From what I see, however, is that the files are not getting copied to /usr/local/bin in the first place, but I can't see why...

Is this a sandboxing issue? Is it a signing issues? Is it the continuing storrrrry of a quack who's gone to the dogs?

PS: some of the names have been changed
PPS: The original package was made using package maker (I know, I know...). I've subsequently built this using composer with no post flight and am awaiting testing

[thanzig]

Hey Woggledog,
I am new to this stuff but I'm confused as to what you are doing. A netboot is just a network bootable OSX hosted on an OS X server. Are you netbooting new machines and then trying to lay down an image with casper? Or are you trying to create a NetInstall or NetRestore?

[woggledog]

sorry, net install image, not boot. My apologies.

Trying to lay down an image with casper, with several installers

[woggledog]

Can confirm that the issue isn't there when using a composer pkg.

Lesson learnt!

However, if anyone has some insight...

[thanzig]

I netboot into a custom OS X with the casper utilities. I then lay down the image, apps and other stuff. My image is a DMG I created with Computer. My apps are all packages created with Composer as well.