From 9962455ae6fa3dc31a2072849097882bd364efae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charlie Fenton Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 19:41:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Mac installer: add comment on problem with BOINC+VBox installer --- mac_installer/release_boinc.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/mac_installer/release_boinc.sh b/mac_installer/release_boinc.sh index 3362aa42cf..60e9c2223f 100644 --- a/mac_installer/release_boinc.sh +++ b/mac_installer/release_boinc.sh @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ ## updated 12/16/14 by Charlie Fenton to name folders "x86_64" not "i686" ## updated 12/16/14 by Charlie Fenton to also code sign the installer package ## updated 12/17/14 by Charlie Fenton to fix typo in build of BOINC+VBox installer +## updated 4/7/15 by Charlie Fenton to comment on problem with BOINC+VBox installer ## ## NOTE: This script requires Mac OS 10.6 or later, and uses XCode developer ## tools. So you must have installed XCode Developer Tools on the Mac @@ -62,6 +63,19 @@ ## * Copy VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool from the VirtualBox installer disk ## image (.dmg) into this "VirtualBox Installer" directory. ## +## NOTE: As of 5/7/15, I recommend against releasing the combined Macintosh +## BOINC+VirtualBox installer because each version of VirtualBox comes with +## its own uninsall script included as a separate command-line utility. +## Using the uninstall script from a previous version of VirtualBox may not +## work correctly, so we can't just add the current script to our "Uninstall +## BOINC" utility because the user may later upgrade to a newer version of +## VirtualBox. We should not install VirtualBox as part of the BOINC install +## unless our BOINC uninstaller will uninstall it. We can't expect BOINC users +## to be comfortable finding and running a command-line utility. +## +## We have asked Oracle to include their uninstall script inside the VirtualBox +## bundle, or some other standard place where our BOINC uninstaller can find +## the current version, but they have not yet done so. ## Usage: ##