Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10456] Installer package doesn't prevent installation on u
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Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:21:59 +0000

changed bug 10456


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Summary "No interface can be used for capturing in this system with the current configuration" Installer package doesn't prevent installation on unsupported releases

Comment # 3 on bug 10456 from 
That's our package and, as I said, "The packages from wireshark.org are
supported only on 10.5 or later."

1.12 switched from using a StartupItem to change the permissions on the BPF
devices to using a launch daemon, because (at least one build of) Yosemite
doesn't support StartupItems.  10.4 does have launchd, but perhaps it doesn't
support the launchctl commands we use to install the launch daemon (or perhaps
doesn't support third party launch daemons at all).

We don't have a machine with the 10.4u SDK on which to build versions for
Tiger, and don't, as far as I know, have any Tiger machines on which to test
it.

So we won't be supporting Tiger - and our builds have never supported Tiger; at
best, they happened, by luck, to work on Tiger.

You'll have to arrange to make the BPF devices available yourself, perhaps by,
for example:

    creating a directory "/Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF" (you will probably
have to use "sudo" to do this - which is good, as that directory *must* be
owned by "root" and group "wheel");

    downloading the ChmodBPF file:

       
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=blob_plain;f=packaging/macosx/ChmodBPF/ChmodBPF;hb=7d77d753c6c9131ba63313d2154658eb6b7815e5

    installing that file as "/Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF/ChmodBPF" - it must
also be owned by "root" and group "wheel";

    downloading the StartupParameters.plist file:

       
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=blob_plain;f=packaging/macosx/ChmodBPF/StartupParameters.plist;hb=7d77d753c6c9131ba63313d2154658eb6b7815e5

    installing that file as
"/Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF/StartupParameters.plist" - it must also be
owned by "root" and group "wheel";


    downloading the chmodbpf-postinstall.sh file:

       
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=blob_plain;f=packaging/macosx/Scripts/chmodbpf-postinstall.sh;hb=7d77d753c6c9131ba63313d2154658eb6b7815e5

    running it as root (again, using "sudo").

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