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InstallApplications silently fails with packages that are not universal if Rosetta is not installed
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Description
When installing packages that do not contain <options customize="never" require-scripts="false" hostArchitectures="x86_64,arm64"/> in their Distribution file, IAs attempts to install the package and silently fails. It thinks the install is successful.
Your provisioning process may then fail in weird ways. A second IAs run will likely work, because Rosetta is now installed (by another script you have)
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Research direction
Start at the InstallApplications package-install path and trace how packages lacking the stated Distribution options are handled when Rosetta is absent. Reproduce the failure with a non-universal package on an Apple-silicon Mac, then verify that the run reports the installation failure instead of succeeding silently and that provisioning does not continue as if it succeeded.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, python
- Domain
- devops, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100