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Re: [platform-dev] MacOS .dmg vs .tar.gz
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Can some other Mac user confirm that Finder adds the quarantine attribute when getting the Eclipse.app from the .dmg?
Regards,
Liviu
> On 7 Nov 2020, at 01:48, Liviu Ionescu <ilg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 7 Nov 2020, at 00:49, Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> How was the dmg created?
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> Good question! I have no idea, by the magic of EPP.
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>> Can you mount it and see if the quarantine bits are in the dmg itself?
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> Sure. They are not.
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> ilg@wks ~ % xattr /Volumes/Eclipse/Eclipse.app
> ilg@wks ~ %
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>> If you downloaded it from a tgz, then created a dmg from that, you’d bake in the quarantine flags into the dmg itself.
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> Aaaa... I don't know what to say, I did none of the above, I simply downloaded both the .dmg and the .tar.gz from the Eclipse 2020-12-M2 page.
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>> If you can give me the exact url you downloaded I can verify it for you.
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> Yes, please do so, to compare the results:
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> https://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/downloads/release/2020-12/M2/
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>> But I have not noticed this behaviour on the Eclipse Platform DMGs so it’s not an issue with either Eclipse or DMGs themselves.
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> I downloaded the files with Safari, as usual, and the files ended in ~/Downloads.
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> When I extracted Eclipse.app from the .dmg I used drag & drop from the mounted window into another window where ~/tmp was opened. I don't think this is unusual, actually this is what most users will do.
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> The quarantine attribute seems to be added by Finder when copying Eclipse.app from the .dmg to any folder, either in my user folders or in /Applications, after authentication.
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> macOS 10.15.7.
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> Regards,
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> Liviu
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