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Fails to compile Tahoe beta full installer when running on a Tahoe beta machine #184
Description
🪲 Description
Thought I would put this here for better visibility for others. I notice mist-cli is struggling with compiling the new macOS beta installer, but not sure what the error means. FYI, I'm running this on a Tahoe beta.
It all downloads fine, hence I used --cache-downloads below to save time on the second run:
% sudo mist download installer 26 package --cache-downloads --catalog-url https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-16beta-16-15-14-13-12-10.16-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz --include-betas
Password:
┌──────────────────┐
│ INPUT VALIDATION │
└──────────────────┘
├─ User is 'root'...
├─ Download search string will be '26'...
├─ Include betas in search results will be 'true'...
├─ Only include compatible installers will be 'false'...
├─ Cache downloads will be 'true'...
├─ Output directory will be '/Users/Shared/Mist'...
├─ Temporary directory will be '/private/tmp/com.ninxsoft.mist'...
├─ Force flag has not been set, existing files will not be overwritten...
├─ Package name will be 'Install %NAME% %VERSION%-%BUILD%.pkg'...
├─ Package identifier will be 'com.company.pkg.%NAME%.%VERSION%.%BUILD%'...
┌────────┐
│ SEARCH │
└────────┘
├─ Searching for macOS download '26'...
├─ Found [082-55599] macOS Beta 26.0 (25A5279m) [2025-06-09]
┌───────┐
│ SETUP │
└───────┘
├─ Nothing to do!
┌──────────┐
│ DOWNLOAD │
└──────────┘
├─ [ 1 / 6 ] 082-55599.English.dist......................... [ 10.01 KB / 10.01 KB (100.0%) ]
│ Verifying... ✓✓✓
├─ [ 2 / 6 ] InstallAssistant.pkg........................... [ 17.07 GB / 17.07 GB (100.0%) ]
│ Verifying... ✓✓✓
├─ [ 3 / 6 ] InstallInfo.plist.............................. [ 0181 B / 0181 B (100.0%) ]
│ Verifying... ✓✓✓
├─ [ 4 / 6 ] MajorOSInfo.pkg................................ [ 01.26 MB / 01.26 MB (100.0%) ]
│ Verifying... ✓✓✓
├─ [ 5 / 6 ] UpdateBrain.zip................................ [ 04.25 MB / 04.25 MB (100.0%) ]
│ Verifying... ✓✓✓
├─ [ 6 / 6 ] com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist.. [ 01.54 MB / 01.54 MB (100.0%) ]
│ Verifying... ✓✓✓
┌─────────┐
│ INSTALL │
└─────────┘
├─ Deleting old image '/private/tmp/com.ninxsoft.mist/082-55599/082-55599.dmg'...
├─ Creating image '/private/tmp/com.ninxsoft.mist/082-55599/082-55599.dmg'...
├─ Mounting disk image at mount point '/Volumes/082-55599'...
├─ Creating new installer '/Volumes/082-55599/Applications/Install macOS Beta.app'...
└─ Invalid Exit Status Code: '1', Message: 2025-06-11 20:54:53.983 installer[40645:1148661] Opened package is not the same at install time...
📋 Steps to Reproduce
sudo mist download installer 26 package --catalog-url https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-16beta-16-15-14-13-12-10.16-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz --include-betas
✅ Expected Behaviour
The installer should be compiled and placed in /Applications.
💻 Environment
- mist version (
mist --version): 2.1.1 - macOS Version (
sw_vers): 26.0/25A5279m - Hardware (
system_profiler SPHardwareDataType):- M1
ℹ️ Additional context
- Is this also a bug in Mist.app? Haven't tried sorry.
Activity
wakco commentedon Jun 26, 2025
FYI, this issue is specific to running
miston macOS 26 Tahoe, but not limited to just attempting to build macOS 26 Tahoe, as I have yet to getmistto build a macOS installer for any macOS version (attempted to build 13,14,15 last week, also failed)grahampugh commentedon Jun 27, 2025
@wakco sadly not. I've just run the same command on my Mac running 15.6 Beta (24G5054d) and got the same error.
(I'd love a way to just bypass the DMG creation and just run
installer -tgt / -pkg /private/tmp/com.ninxsoft.mist/082-55599/InstallAssistant.pkg)Moulick commentedon Jul 15, 2025
Same error for
sudo mist download installer 24G5074c application --include-betason Sequoia. Also same error on Mist app, not just cli.nicerloop commentedon Aug 3, 2025
Same error trying
sudo mist download installer 15.6 isofrom Sequoia 15.6, either from CLI or GUI.Does not seem to be linked with the downloaded image, but to a recent change on host (15.6 / 26).
ninxsoft commentedon Sep 21, 2025
This should be fixed in #187 🚀