I was getting a bizarre error with Apple’s PackageMaker
% /Developer/usr/bin/packagemaker --filter "\.DS_Store" --root-volume-only --domain system --verbose --no-relocate -l "/" --target 10.5 --id com.codeography.program.pkg --resources build/Release/Package/resources --scripts build/Release/Package/scripts --title "Program Name 2.1.10" --version 2.1.10 --root build/Release/Package/root --out installer.pkg
Preverifying root
Preverifying root
Checking bundle identifiers
Checking package configuration
Checking contents
Loading contents
Applying Recommended Permissions
Checking for ZeroLink
Preverifying Program Name 2.1.10
Preverifying Program Name 2.1.10
Building root
Building root
Copying Scripts
Copying unreadable files to temporary location
ERROR: Could not copy unreadable files.
Renaming package files
After hours of searching I found that I had a vim swap file that wasn’t world readable. And when I change the owner of the files that I need to package to be root, my user no longer had read permissions. Finding this was pretty easy using the find command.
% find . \! -perm -444
installer/config/.Info.plist.swp
Deleted that file and everything worked.