[Composer] Building PKG files with pref files for current user...

[Pituley, Marc]

Hi Steve,

When I am building a package that requires items to be placed in a users profile (usually plist files that configure something like auto-update), I will have the installer place the items into the default user template. (/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj).  This way whenever a new user logs in the items are imported into their user directory.  This works well when installing applications as part of a complete system reimage, but installing the package to a system that is already being used means that everyone who has already logged into the computer (and has a user profile) won't have the items as part of their profile.

Thanks,

Marc Pituley
IT Support Specialist
Desktop Services
University of Saskatchewan

-----Original Message-----
From: composer-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:composer-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of sphen boyle
Sent: April-09-09 1:09 PM
To: Composer at list.jamfsoftware.com
Subject: [Composer] Building PKG files with pref files for current user...

Hi there-

have been building some packages recently - and while things are  
working well i ran into one situation where im not sure what to do.   
For some of the software packages the serialization and initial  
settings are stored within the users plist files.  is there any way  
when creating the image to store some files to the currently logged in  
user instead of an absolute path?  i looked trough all the docs etc  
and couldnt find anything specific to this.  any ideas would be  
greatly appreciated!  thanks.

-steve.
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