xcrun stapler error/message confusing

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saxenark OP

Created Jul ’24

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Hi,

We are running xcrun staple on our pkg file. It gives the following message

We do not know how to deal with trailer version 9262. Exepected 1

Terminator Trailer size must be 0, not 1737

{magic: t8lr, version: 1, type: 2, length: 1737}

Found expected ticket at 8164385 with length of 1737

Sig Type is RSA. Length is 3

Sig Type is CMS. Length is 3

Package mypkg.pkg uses a checksum of size 20

*The staple and validate action worked!*

However, the command returns with -1 error code.

So, the questions I have are:

What does this return response mean?
Do we consider this as a success of failure scenario (specially because the message "...action worked"

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Answer 1

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’24

How are you creating this installer package? Using Apple tools?

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Answer 2

saxenark OP

Jul ’24

ah, no, we are using munkipkg. https://github.com/munki/munki-pkg

is that likely to be the reason?

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Answer 3

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Aug ’24

I don’t know; I don’t have direct experience with that tool.

However, I have seen problems similar to this with other third-party tools that create packages. My general advice is that you try to reproduce this with Apple tools. That has two benefits:

If the problem reproduces with Apple tools, then you can seek help from Apple because, you know, we can no longer pass the buck (-:
OTOH, if the Apple package works but your third-party one doesn’t, that’s something you can reasonable escalate via the support channel for your third-party tooling.

Packaging Mac software for distribution has a simple example of how to create a package using Apple tools.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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