[Sparkle] internet-enable

[Rob Napier]

Thanks. I was able to get it working once I understood that you can only
internet-enable a r/o DMG. But the error you get is extremely confusing. I
look forward to seeing CocoaTech's patches!

Thanks,
-Rob

On Nov 26, 2007 2:33 PM, Andy Matuschak <andy at andymatuschak.org> wrote:

> Yeah, the DMG code has always been pretty spotty. The folks from
> CocoaTech sent me a patch recently that improves it quite a lot; I'll
> be committing it soon-ish.
>
> - Andy Matuschak
>
> On Nov 25, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Rob Napier wrote:
>
> > I'm newly using Sparkle, and have had a lot of trouble getting a DMG
> > image to work. Looking at the code, it seems to use the internet-
> > enable option to make the DMG act more like a
> > tar. When I follow the code in the debugger, or run hdiutil by hand,
> > it is not actually extracting the image in place. I checked with
> > 'hdiutil internet-enable -query' and it definitely is turned on, but
> > it doesn't seem to do anything special when you run 'hdiutil
> > attach'. Is this known to work in 10.4.11?
> >
> > As a side note, hdiutil does not return an error code if it fails to
> > turn on internet-enable, such as if the DMG is read/write. It just
> > prints a message. Sparkle should check for this, verify that
> > internet-enable was turned on, or attack the problem another way. My
> > preference would be to use mountroot rather than internet-enable
> > (which seems a very quirky option in my opinion). If there's no
> > objection to that kind of change, I'm willing to write the code.
> >
> > -Rob
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