[Patrick Gallagher]

Any other ideas? I’m still having a problem. I re downloaded b4 and put only the 10.5.5 update in there and it still doesn’t touch it. Am I missing a step that was added between b2 and b4? InstaUp2date is optional, correct?

[Patrick Gallagher]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: trondah[/u][p]Try naming your folders 01 02 03 and not 01-foo 02-bar 03-baz.[/p][/QUOTE]

Thanks for the suggestion, but no, that still didn’t work.

[Patrick Gallagher]

You wouldn’t be able to run softwareupdate on it. It’s not just a matter of redirecting the installs, but redirecting the source it is check for updates on. Software Update is going to check /Library/Receipts of your startup volume to check for available updates.

[Patrick Gallagher]

You have the totally wrong idea about what InstaDMG is. This has nothing to do with creating “installers”, it is for creating “images” from packages. What you are trying to do is already provided by OS X Server in the “System Imaging Utility” application.

[Patrick Gallagher]

One problem however if you’re an ARD user. In my testing, the MCX policy will not apply to the root user who is presumably who you would send the softwareupdate command as over ARD. For that, you would need to defaults write /var/root/Library/Prefs/com.apple.softwareupdate CatalogURL http://blah/blah.

[Patrick Gallagher]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: ewhite[/u][p]After installing iLife 08 & appropriate updates, I get an empty /Applications/iMovie (previous version)/ … anybody else seeing this?[/p][/QUOTE]

Yes, I get that too. The iLife 08 installer saves the older version for people that hate the new version, but does not include it. I will probably just throw a line into the instadmg script to rm that folder.

[Patrick Gallagher]

Hiding a user in loginwindow will also hide it from the Accounts System Prefs and ARD config in the GUI. You can still add access for that user using kickstart or by created a client installer. This should be preferred. A big reason to hid an admin user to to prevent end-users (who are also admins) from making any changes to the support admin user, this would include ARD access.

[Patrick Gallagher]

Apple updates run before custom. iLife updates should be put into Apple updates. The current version of InstaDMG can install them fine even though it’s not the boot volume.

[Patrick Gallagher]

Search domains can be set with networksetup.

networksetup -setsearchdomains “Built-in Ethernet” dept1.company.com dept2.company.com

[Patrick Gallagher]

I wouldn’t worry about it. Maybe just a note in the readme would be good enough.

[Patrick Gallagher]

Is replacing that file not working? That’s the file that contains the setting. You can also set it in /var/root/Library/Preferences which is used by root when sending the command over ARD. Alternatively, you can create a startupitem to run a script which contains the defaults command.

[Patrick Gallagher]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: macshome[/u][p]I dumped the mpkg into my build train and at the end the script couldn’t eject the intermediary image as iTunesHelper was running on it. The build completed successfully, but I plan on adding process scanning to the cleanup handler.[/p][/QUOTE]

I get that too. I also get a process from SAV that keeps it from ejecting. I just kill the processes.

[Patrick Gallagher]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: macshome[/u][p] right now I’m staring at iTunes 7.6 and the iLifeMediaBrowser update to see if they could use repackaging.
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iTunes has always been ok for me (I put this update as a netrestore postaction), but I seperate out the 3 pkg’s inside the itunes mpkg since that is what happens when you tell SU to download.

[Patrick Gallagher]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: benfeea1[/u][p][QUOTE][u]Quote by: macshome[/u][p]If you set export CM_BUILD=CM_BUILD in the environment section of the script those packages should install.[/p][/QUOTE]

Could you elaborate on that a little more.[/p][/QUOTE]

This is set by default now in version 1.3. Quicktime should install fine now with the new version.

[Patrick Gallagher]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: pteeter[/u][p]

Here’s another thing to ponder…

Do people consider Apple software like iWork or iLife candidates for the AppleUpdates InstaDMG folder or the CustomPKG folder?

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They would probably be custompkg. iLife wants to only install on the boot volume, so that may need to be repackaged.

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