site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding :from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=I4d4bvKJ3cHAVJOsqNpR6TFJBgmJ6c6oDKcgjOtbvm4=; b=B3SSf52cWCUYp14JNZpagC7anBMlc4ihzDOoqWidZpj8XnPIgShBxWMkNjT+y7u6bm Iv8ACbq9lERToZyLabi9yPAHPEcm+ONn0C8T7JkT2PLZx9LM1PpcGQbcGzMH7KAjReBT Rfn2SsZdlkSo+j8P92MawAbGZmPJqVSZJtvP4= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=MQDccM5IYoTjBgxQvEWxNzsdpIF6sb3xKqCE0Ivxqg4fGWLx4leAxPx08oNH7xgJly LK7mOHgl60/k2HjxSwE1jtlrc4bbriV3CqetSUpLStqMXRYLAmfML1/UMlAtMstJ2GOP gQSfEYuRhF4SKEKJkOht50nFu6JrTNy6Q0Ny4= On May 29, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Greg Neagle wrote: Update Name/ Packages/ Package1.pkg/ Package2.pkg/ UpdateName-1.0.0.dist Update Name.dist -> Packages/UpdateName-1.0.0.dist 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. My $0.02 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... /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: 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: 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: It is possible that a distribution used for softwareupdate installs nothing when used with Installer.app as there can be 3 choice hierarchies as defined in the Distribution Definition Reference. If the distribution has no 'Installer' or default hierarchy, then it would not install anything AFAIK. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com