Installing client on Mac OS 10.14 / Mojave fails

[Moisie]

Hi:

This doesn’t help right now, but I’m intending to do some more work on this in the near future - but I’ve got a couple of other projects I need to finish first.
For my own use, if nothing else, I want to get the Mac client back to being fully functional.
(Full disclosure: I’m not an expert developer, but I am an expert Mac admin - so my contribution is mainly limited to ensuring the client behaves well in a Mac environment.)
Thanks.

[Randall_Rodriguez_Wa]

Hi

We have a lot of Macs to test with different Mac OS X versions

How can we help?

[uroni]

Someone needs to do this:

@uroni

Sure. The hope is that someone takes over maintaining the macos client. The basic step, running https://github.com/uroni/urbackup_backend/blob/dev/create_osx_installer.sh shouldn’t be too hard.
Beyond fixing the issues, what would be nice:

• Checking if it has full disk access after installation and displaying a screen with instructions otherwise
• Somehow integrating with APFS snapshots
• Low priority: Finding out how APFS sparse files work and supporting those

Idk if the /etc area ist the most approriate one. It probably has a better per-applications directory somewhere else (like AppData on Windows).

The issues should be fixed by:

• Moisie’s modified distribution.xml (I already merged this but did not test it)
• In the application bundle path take /var/urbackup and link it to e.g. /Library/Application Support/UrBackup-Client during/after installation

New issue:

• Do notarize app during build (needed for 10.15) Notarizing macOS software before distribution | Apple Developer Documentation Customizing the notarization workflow | Apple Developer Documentation

This does not look like much work…