"missing bundle identifier"

jarednichols
Honored Contributor

Hi-

Is anyone else getting these errors on logs?

010-02-17 05:41:05.114 installer[2482:3123] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle
identifier: /Library/Receipts/Flip4Mac Web Plugins.pkg

This is one that I get frequently. I also get it for our Cisco VPN client.
It seem to happen more on 10.6 machines but I've seen a few 10.5 machines do
it as well. The policy that I have this particular entry on actually
completed successfully but because of this, the policy shows up as failed
(and I subsequently get an alert). This is kind of annoying when I'm pushing
something out to 700 machines and get 500 error messages but they're all
bogus.

Does anyone know why Casper even cares? I know exactly what it's looking
for... In every package (or metapackage) there's an Info.plist file. This
tells the package basic stuff like install location options, if it needs a
reboot, admin or root authorization etc... There's a flag in there for
CFBundleIdentifier and it's expecting something in the
com.apple.<productname> format. These bundles apparently don't have them and
Casper is throwing a hissy over it.

Ideas?

j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
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abenedict
New Contributor II

These errors are from software update, my guess is that these receipts don't
conform to Apple's standards. I have the same issue, especially with any
dummy receipts that I create. Definitely happens more in 10.6, I hardly see
it at all in 10.5.

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John_Wetter
Release Candidate Programs Tester

Yes, I've seen this also. All of the Office 2008 receipts I have are showing as this in Snow Leopard. Didn't see this much or at all in Leopard.

John

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