[benhur]

Thanks for the reply. Firefox was just one example but the general question was whether it makes sense to install, configure, and then package or two keep those two separate.

Just wondering how the pro’s do it 🙂

[benhur]

Thanks for the replies. It was the LeopardGraphicsUpdate1.0.pkg update that was causing this issue.

I am paying more attention to the list of packages and the order. It’s definitely a good idea to check “Apple updates and update order” often.

[benhur]

I have tested that tip at the link and it works great. Sounds like it may be rolled into the next version.

[benhur]

I would love to give this a try. I may give it a shot here this week and will post my results.

thanks

[benhur]

I was afraid of that. I was wondering about the installerchoices.xml being used for other installs as well. Thanks for info, maybe iLife, iWork and Office will be supported in future versions.

That was the nice thing about the former imaging process. You could very granular with your image and know exactly what you were getting, as long as you were willing to put in the time.

I get the instadmg benefits. But I wonder about the level of detail I can get with this workflow.

As evident with Office 2008, if the applications are in package format you may have to repackage it if you don’t want the full install. Still, it seems worth it as more people adopt this method and come up with solutions.

I’m learning however and still have questions about “rolling your own.”

What are the best practices and tools for this? Are there certain situations where you would use PackageMaker or is a program like Composer the best solution. To just snapshot and build a package seems like a certain way to get what you want in a package for that level of granularity that existed in the previous way of imaging. Thanks for all the help.

[benhur]

Thanks! This worked great.

[benhur]

I am very interested in this as well. Would like to make a web server for teachers from many schools across the district. Also, have a separate Xserve for their home directories. I’m using 10.4.6 on both servers.

[Author]

Posts