100405 - Folder name, Mac System, not supported

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect)

Description

[Jimmy Lee]

Build: 2001-09-14-04-0.9.4(MAC)

1. From http://jimbob/trigger3.html, click on Acceptance drop-down and choose
   a_getfolder_1_macsystem
2. Click on Trigger case button
3. Click on Ok button from Items to Install

RESULT:
Install.log returns an error -202 (ACCESS DENIED)

EXPECTED RESULT:
File is found in System folder similar to Mac OS 9.x.  Install.log describes
this installation as well.

Comment 1

[Jimmy Lee]

Nominating for branch.  A user cannot install to the System folder with this
folder name.  I do not know if there is an alternative way.  Other Mac OS's
allow this.

Comment 2

[Steve Dagley]

The pre-Mac OS X 'System' folder doesn't map onto the OS X system folder

Comment 3

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Mozilla installer should not attempt touching the Mac OS X /System folder. In
fact, even the admins aren't supposed to mess with /System.

/System/Library contains Apple's system stuff. No one but Apple is expected to
put anything there.
/Library contains system-wide stuff that the admins have chosen to install.
~/Library contains user-specific stuff.
Mozilla (and all other apps) should use ~/Library by default but allow an admin
to put system-wide defaults in /Library if the admin so wishes.

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz] out until Nov 10]

This bug is not about an installation of Mozilla itself touching the system
folder, but whether the XPInstall engine has the ability to address it for
people who are writing installers for other software.

If people think there is never any non-Apple software there in OSX then we can
mark this one WONTFIX or something.

Comment 5

[Steve Dagley]

That folder name is not valid under Mac OS X - marking WONTFIX.

Comment 6

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz] out until Nov 10]

If that's not a valid target then getFolder("Mac System") should return null,
not some other wrong directory.

Comment 7

[David Epstein]

Test case can be triggered from
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/smartupdate/xpinstall-trigger.html
Select a_getfolder_1_macsystem from the Acceptance Test Case menu

Comment 8

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

install.js is no longer supported