OS X 2.6.4 installer fails on 10.3 with two corrupted file names, ignored on 10.4

[ned-deily]

BPO	7437
Nosy	@ronaldoussoren, @ned-deily
Files	unnamed install test results.txt

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assignee = 'https://github.com/ronaldoussoren'
closed_at = <Date 2010-02-07.11:41:43.385>
created_at = <Date 2009-12-05.01:40:21.607>
labels = ['OS-mac', 'type-bug']
title = 'OS X 2.6.4 installer fails on 10.3 with two corrupted\tfile names, ignored on 10.4'
updated_at = <Date 2010-02-07.11:41:43.383>
user = 'https://github.com/ned-deily'

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[ned-deily]

See the thread starting at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-
sig/2009-December/021907.html for full details.

It appears two vestigial gif files included in the 2.6.4 OS installer
are being installed under corrupted file names by the OS X Installer.app
under 10.3 and 10.4. While the error is silently ignored on 10.4, it
apparently causes the whole install to fail on 10.3. The problem does
not seem to occur when installing on 10.5 or 10.6. It is also not
limited to that installer image: I was able to reproduce the problem
with an installer I built on 10.5. However, an installer built on 10.4
from the same source snapshot seems to have the correct file names.

Without knowing exactly why those two file names, and only those two,
are corrupted, it seems risky to let this seemingly minor problem go
unresolved. And it apparently prevents 2.6.4 from being installed on
10.3, a more serious problem.

[ronaldoussoren]

The problem shouldn't be present in 3.1 and 2.7, both trees no longer
contain the ancient documentation files.

IMHO the best fix is to remove
Mac/Resources/app/Resources/English.lproj/Documentation/ide/ (and the
link to ide/index.html in .../Documentation/index.html).

Is anyone on the nosy list capable of testing such a patch? I can
provide a 2.6.4+ installer with this fix, but cannot test the fix myself
because I don't have access to a machine that's capable of running 10.3.

[ronaldoussoren]

This should be fixed in r76715, I've removed the documentation that caused
the installer issues in the first place.

[GD]

Point me in the direction of a binary to download and I can test it for you.

GD

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[ned-deily]

I've built an installer image to test this consisting of 2.6.4 plus r76715. If you're still willing to test this on 10.3, I'll contact you via email with the download details.

[tjsulli]

I would be happy to test the new package for you. I am running 10.3.9 and Had attempted to install 2.6.4 recently without realizing it, so my terminal version is 2.6.4 but idle and back at 2.5. email me if you want me to test it for you.

[tjsulli]

Install was successful. PLease find the attachment with the test results you asked for. Thank you very much for making the fix to the package installer!!!!

[ronaldoussoren]

TJ: thanks for testing on 10.3.9.