Mac package is outdated and corrupt

[constfun]

I've visited the home page and downloaded 0install clicking the big green button. This gave me http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/zero-install/0install/2.8/ZeroInstall.pkg which is quite outdated, I think.

Upon running the file I get a message from macOS
"Zeroinstall.pkg" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

I've tried downloading it multiple times, same result.

I'm on Sierra 10.12.5

[talex5]

I think this is just macOS's way of saying that it doesn't trust it. I tried it on a High Sierra Mac and it worked, although I had to use the right-click menu to open it with Installer (it refused to let me run it directly).

[talex5]

/cc @afb

[afb]

I don't run Mac anymore, so have not been able to update the pkg (nor the dependencies, like gtk+)

[talex5]

I added an action here to build master and publish the resulting archive: https://github.com/0install/0install/actions

Maybe a mac user could test this and (if necessary) turn this into a proper mac package.

[bastianeicher]

I've uploaded a copy of the ZIP archive because the GitHub Actions build artifacts only seem to be downloadable by project contributors.

I also noticed that the ZIP archive generated by GitHub Actions does not seem to preserve executable bits. I got it working in a CI pipeline like this:

curl -slO https://0install.de/files/0install-macos-latest.zip
unzip 0install-macos-latest.zip -d 0install
chmod +x 0install/files/0install
./0install/files/0install --help

@morevnaproject Could you perhaps help us out with testing this a little more thoroughly on a Mac?

[morevnaproject]

I've uploaded a copy of the ZIP archive because the GitHub Actions build artifacts only seem to be downloadable by project contributors.

Thank you! I also can access build artifacts from this link ^__^ - https://github.com/0install/0install/actions/runs/71248591

I also noticed that the ZIP archive generated by GitHub Actions does not seem to preserve executable bits.

Yes, this is a specific of ZIP format - it doesn't preserve execution attributes and any other *nix-like attributes. For keeping execution bits it wil work to pack into tar.gz or tar.bz2 ^__^

@morevnaproject Could you perhaps help us out with testing this a little more thoroughly on a Mac?

I tested and got the following error:

It looks like my version of OSX (10.10) is too old for that.
This link says that GitHub actions use OSX 10.15.

Building on older version of OSX can solve the issue. TravisCI offer OSX version 10.10 for building packages.

[bastianeicher]

Issue superseded by #182