What is "missing bundle identifier"

Maybe this will help.

http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa;jsessionid=0661C8CD0EB6CCA04E5A971 95AF236B1.node0?messageID=11194062&#11194062

PackageKit presumably is the utility which verifies the integrity of and installs packages. It keeps a list of packages that the Installer application [in /System/Library/CoreServices] has officially installed, and in /Library/Receipts it maintains a database of what it has installed.

I see messages such as

softwareupdate[16412:3407] PackageKit: * Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/vpnclient-api.pkg

for applications I have uninstalled by brute force. Some applications you download may be accompanied by a corresponding uninstaller which, presumably, uninstalls a package and ALL of its ancillary files more gracefully.

As far as I know the messages are benign but if you really want to get rid of them, read the thread at

http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa;jsessionid=B1A4C08BD4D8750B4718438 14E27F5AD.node0?messageID=11194062&#11194062

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#DOCUMENTATION/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/ CFBundles/BundleTypes/BundleTypes.html

he bundle identifier string identifies your application to the system. This string must be a uniform
 type identifier (UTI) that contains only alphanumeric (A-Z,a-z,0-9), hyphen ➖, and period (.) 
characters. The string should also be in reverse-DNS format. For example, if your company’s domain
 is Ajax.com and you create an application named Hello, you could assign the string com.Ajax.Hello 
as your application’s bundle identifier. The bundle identifier is used in validating the application 
signature.

you may also want to look at:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#technotes/tn2009/tn2242.html

Message was edited by: Nils C. Anderson