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Microsoft have now pulled SP2 out of AutoUpdate: h**p://blog.officeformac.com/update-on-service-pack-2/
They advise manual installs should be patched as follows (see end of thread): h**ps://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=4241
I have not had time to test this fix btw.
—john—

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From what I’ve seen reported on e.g. the MacEnterprise list, I’d hold off on installing the recent SP2. Microsoft say they are ‘aware’ of problems with the installer, and with the upgrade process for the Outlook database.

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All interesting solutions, I had resorted to just leaving 11D50 by itself and deleting the others. I was hoping there would be some other command. Since I make a build specific copy of the Vanilla catalog, I guess that’s all that’s needed. I just wanted to check I wasn’t missing something obvious, or doing something that would trip me up later.
Thanks!

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I stopped using StuffitExpander because of the appalling installers they’ve had over the years. I’d recommend [b]The Unarchiver[/b] instead h**p://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver

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Pesky invisible characters…

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Have you checked:
* items separated by tabs and not spaces in your catalog files?
* the capitalisation of your path (all lower case may not be correct)

The comments can be safely ignored, and the icons changing probably just mean that double-clicking them will now start TextWrangler rather than TextEdit.

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TextEdit is a no-no unless you’re really careful. I recommend TextWrangler h**p://bit.ly/kT57g for editing these files. It’s free! You’ll be able to preserve the plain text, encoding and line endings that way, and use whatever filename suffix you want.
I use [b].catalog[/b] for my catalog files.

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Thanks to all for the help.

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Maybe I’m missing something, but it looks like the chain of file goes:
[b]snowleopard.catalog > common.catalog > 10.6_vanilla.catalog[/b]
and doesn’t reference your base.catalog at all.
I’d think you need to remove the include line from base.catalog, and add
[code]include-file: base.catalog[/code]
just before the system settings line in your common.catalog

—john—

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I don’t have Composer unfortunately. Is there a free/open source alternative for snapshotting?

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All now sorted. In case it’s of benefit to others here’s what I did:

1) Extracted Adobe Flash Player.pkg from the /Contents/Resources/ folder within ‘Install Adobe Flash Player.app’ downloaded from the enterprise website
2) Created a text file ‘mms.cfg’ with just the following line:
[code]AutoUpdateDisable=1[/code]
3) Created a package in Iceberg that drops /private/var/tmp/Adobe Flash Player.pkg and /Library/Application Support/Macromedia/mms.cfg
4) Added the following to first boot.sh:
[code]…
installer=”/usr/sbin/installer”
fileTmpDir=”/var/tmp”
…
# Install Flash
$installer -pkg “$fileTmpDir/Adobe Flash Player.pkg” -target /
rm -R “$fileTmpDir/Adobe Flash Player.pkg”
…[/code]

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Yes, that makes a deal of sense. Is there any other file system location that’s commonly used as a temporary folder? I’d like to play by the rules, if there are any…

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Hi, any chance of a URL for the new firstboot script of Mr. Trouton? I’m playing with several versions found on managingosx etc, but if there are some Lion tweaks I’d like to know!
cheers, —john—

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Thanks All!

Off to do some learning then, I’m sure I’ll be back with more questions soon!

—john—

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Allister[/u][p]No, you do not need a package for a drag-drop .app. It is not documented, but if instaDMG or instaUp2Date encounters one it will act accordingly. …[/QUOTE]

Very interesting. I presume the error I was getting was because the app (audacity) was supplied inside a folder inside a dmg (i.e. instDMG was expecting to find a .app rather than a plain folder)? I had assumed that the folder would be copied in. In the case of Audacity, it is in fact a folder full of filters and documentation alongside the app, so I will indeed have to package it to deploy. It’s a shame mainly because of the extra effort that’s going to be needed to repackage when the app is updated – and I’m planning to deploy several apps like this (Audacity, Burn, Endnote). I’m off to watch those videos then…
cheers, —john—

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