Apple updates not being applied

[bw38]

Very strange issue. When I am creating my image, none of the Apple updates are not being applied to the image being created. I am running the latest version of InstaDMG. The vanilla catalog has the proper links so that’s not the issue. I cleared out all cached downloads and even the cached base image.

I am setting the date back 2 months since I can’t get a hold of the latest 10.7.3 installer. I hear that this works to avoid the issue with the expired certificates. The computer is online during this time though. Is anyone else having a similar experience? Any ideas?

[bw38]

Forgot to add, I am using the 10.7.0 InstallESD.dmg.
And I also tried re-downloading InstaDMG to a separate folder to start completely from scratch.

Issue still persists. Image created is still a 10.7.0 image and updates are not being applied.

[bw38]

Hmm, it looks like the root cause was the fact that I kept running InstaDMG in the past (set machine time to 2 months ago). This apparently needs to be done so that InstaDMG can create the cached base image initially. But the updates won’t work I presume because the new security certificate is only valid AFTER a certain date and BEFORE they expire (sometime in 2019?). Anyways, if you starting from scratch with InstaDMG, the trick appears to be to set the clock back before security certificates expired (any time in Feb 2012 should do). InstaDMG will then create the cached base image, but the final output file (the “10.7vanilla.dmg”) will not contain any updates. Change the machine time back to the current date and run InstaDMG again. This time it will use the cached base image that was previously created and will process the apple updates successfully.

Hope this helps anyone who may have run into this.

[88gb525dxQK4gt6u]

Well the *new* updates have a certificate valid after Feb. 24th so if you set up the date before that they won’t work.

As you said, you can keep a valid BaseImageCache and use the current date for updates and software, or use Greg’s script to fix the two conflictive packages inside InstallESD.dmg

I personally keep a valid BaseImageCache and works perfectly

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