softwareupdate downloads package format?
softwareupdate downloads package format?
- Subject: softwareupdate downloads package format?
- From: Greg Neagle <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:07:25 -0700
/usr/sbin/softwareupdate has a --download option, which can be used to
download available updates to the current user's Downloads folder.
But there's an oddity: some downloaded updates appear not as .pkg
or .mpkg files or bundles, but rather as simple directories. These
directories have this format:
Update Name/
Packages/
Package1.pkg/
Package2.pkg/
UpdateName-1.0.0.dist
Update Name.dist -> Packages/UpdateName-1.0.0.dist
If you point installer at the .dist file inside the Packages
directory, some of these downloads will install; others will fail
saying the required resources cannot be found.
Since this looks a bit like the distribution-style metapackage format,
minus the top-level directory, I tried moving the files around like so:
Update Name.mpkg/
Contents/
Packages/
Package1.pkg/
Package2.pkg/
UpdateName-1.0.0.dist
Update Name.dist -> Packages/UpdateName-1.0.0.dist
Now installer seems to recognize it, but still can't install it.
Has anyone found a way to reliably install these downloaded updates?
If there's no way to do so, what's the point of offering the option to
download the updates, if you can't do anything useful with them
afterwards?
For some examples, the recent Server Admin Tools 10.5.7 update
downloads as one of these directories. It can be installed by
pointing the installer at the inner-most .dist file.
An older update, Pro Applications Update 2008-05, also downloads as a
folder with a similar structure, but can't be installed:
root# installer -target / -pkg /var/root/Downloads/Pro Applications
Update 2008-05/Packages/PAU200805-1.0.dist
installer: Package name is Pro Applications Update 2008-05
installer: Upgrading at base path /
installer: The upgrade failed (The Installer could not locate the data
it needed to install the software. Check your install media or
internet connection and try again or contact the software manufacturer
for assistance.)
-Greg
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