Re: Flat Packages Inside A Metapackage
Re: Flat Packages Inside A Metapackage
- Subject: Re: Flat Packages Inside A Metapackage
- From: Allister Banks <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:56:48 -0400
| Hey Mr. McIntyre,
Mr. Olufson is right that you can modify the packages to get the behavior you want, but he's also right to go OT with the DeployStudio suggestion. I'd continue down that OT path and recommend SIU or InstaDMG to bake a patched/mostly configured image. Then you can restore with ASR, or for a large enough order you should actually be able to get your Apple rep to image for you. Even if you need to drop a mac mini running netboot, or run server off of a partition on your laptop it may be worth it(although a reliable core switch that wouldn't affect the rest of the network is also recommended). Configuration/patch management tools like Puppet and Munki are also often utilized to prefect the images in a more decentralized fashion as well. Best of luck,
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Stephen McIntyre wrote: Hi folks,
My employer is ramping up for a Mac deployment in an all-Windows environment. There will be no Apple servers on the network so running a netboot/netrestore server to image new computers is not an option.
The current workflow is to take a new Mac out of the box and run all the required OS updates from a sharepoint on a Windows server. I'd like to roll all those updates into a single installer so there's only one thing that needs to be clicked on. Or we might unbox the computer, install a management agent, and then push the package to the computer.
The problem I have is that with either PackageMaker or Iceberg I can't add flat packages to the metapackage that I'm making. Tiger-style (unflat?) packages add just fine.
Is there something I'm overlooking here? Is there a workaround for this dilemma?
Thanks, Steve McI
-- Steve McIntyre Forsythe Solutions Group, Inc.
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