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Capabilities for the installer itself

1 replies · 0 views · Started 03 February 2007

Hi,

Who defines the capabilities for the installer itself ?
I need my installer (which contents only data files) to extract files to
a application's private location. //private/<sid>

So who needs the "Allfiles capabilities", the installer or the data
files ...

Thx,
Anand

The installer has the capabilities needed, but it will only install the
files if the packages UID matches the <sid> in the filepath. If you need
to add datafiles to your app from a separate sis-file (for example for
skinning), you should use the folder //private/<sid>/import.

-Andreas

Anand Kale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Who defines the capabilities for the installer itself ?
> I need my installer (which contents only data files) to extract files to
> a application's private location. //private/<sid>
>
> So who needs the "Allfiles capabilities", the installer or the data
> files ...
>
> Thx,
> Anand
>
>
>
>