Are there issues with Catalina?

[ClayStudio]

I just ran AppStoreExtract on the AppStore for the first time on Catalina. It appeared to process correctly, but at the end it created a cryptic file name.dmg file and a pkg.plist file. This seemed odd as this has never happened before... usually the file name reflects the app and the revision and only one file is normally created. I had not yet tried to execute the dmg, but I thought I would ask if anything needs to be addressed for Catalina.

[maxschlapfer]

Hi ClayStudio

Yes, I saw that as well but was not yet able to resolve:

It looks like Apple has changed the way how the package information is delivered: the script tries to extract the app name, this fails under Catalina. The package itself is complete and usable, it just has a cryptic name.

I will continue to search for a new way to get the right naming back.

[maxschlapfer]

An update on this problem: I was not able to find the new way of getting the version/name of the package. But I found, that my script is still picking up the right data if the download/installation of the AppStore is not done manually but by using the mas-cli (https://github.com/mas-cli/mas) while my script runs. Hope that help ease the situation a bit.

[ClayStudio]

I had just upgraded my last Mojave system to Catalina and I had forgot about this issue. Today I tried to capture a download update from the AppStore and I was reminded about the issue when the script didn’t complete normally. I have two questions… can we manually rename the file before we tell your script to? Can you tell me where the temporary file is saved to so I can manually copy it? The other question is regarding your advice to use mas-cli…. Is there a complete howto on installing the software and what we are supposed to install? Not quite sure what I would need to do you use that option. Any help is appreciated. Jim On Nov 18, 2019, at 3:09 PM, Max Schlapfer <notifications@github.com> wrote: An update on this problem: I was not able to find the new way of getting the version/name of the package. But I found, that my script is still picking up the right data if the download/installation of the AppStore is not done manually but by using the mas-cli (https://github.com/mas-cli/mas <https://github.com/mas-cli/mas>) while my script runs. Hope that help ease the situation a bit. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#15?email_source=notifications&email_token=ANPSE7ZTLTG2H2G6URBEGPDQULZBJA5CNFSM4JFNUZ6KYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOEELX6VA#issuecomment-555188052>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ANPSE7ZAX24UBNXQE3Y64XTQULZBJANCNFSM4JFNUZ6A>.

[JayBrown]

Just tried it for the first time after upgrading to Catalina: didn't work… only printed *.dmg and *.pkg instead of the full name, and therefore exited with error.

[Side-note: I'm using the same script as the one here, except for two additional detox commands on the pkg and the final dmg.]

I do have the mas CLI installed via Homebrew, so I will try this approach next time.

[JayBrown]

PS: works fine when installing with mas.