Sorry to bring this up again. But it turns out that I had the image directory writable by myself, so it created a new changes file. That's why Pharo didn't complain about missing changes file. When I removed write permission in the tool installation, Pharo gives error for not having or not able to write to changes file.

I guess I'm back to the problem how to deploy a tool without changes file. I have multiple users that will be running this tool, which is installed in a centralized site, so I can't have changes file bundled with the tool.

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Andreas Sunardi <a.sunardi@gmail.com> wrote:

I had my changes and sources files in the bundle but has their write permission removed, and that causes the error. Simply deploying the tool without the changes file seems to fix it. Pharo5 doesn't complain if the changes file isn't there.

However, without the sources file, I get this warning that pharo cannot locate the sources file. Including the sources file in the deployed tool is fine with me.

So, I think that's my solution. Thanks!

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Andreas Sunardi <a.sunardi@gmail.com> wrote:
I found this StackOverflow question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14737695/is-it-possible-to-deploy-a-pharo-image-without-changes-and-sources-files/14747328

and this older forum thread:
https://www.mail-archive.com/pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr/msg21170.html

I'm using Pharo5.0 and neither of these options is available anymore. What is the new way to do this?

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Andreas Sunardi