From: Lucas Rockwell (lr@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 17:24:38 PDT
Kalle,
OS X keeps track of its updates via "receipts" located in:
/Library/Receipts
If you install a piece of software via an installer, SW Update will see
that it has been installed by looking at the Receipts/ directory first and
not present you with the option. Conversely, if you want to reinstall a
piece of software that SW Update has installed, you simply need to remove
the "receipt" from the Receipts/ directory then run SW Update.
-lucas
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Kalle Nemvalts wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have a good OS X Software Update strategy for home
> computers on slow modem lines?
>
> For example, you might receive a particular update on a work computer
> (updates are apparently downloaded as .pkg files to
> /Library/Receipts) and transfer it to the home computer on a Zip disk.
>
> For example, if I were to transfer "MacOSXUpdate10.2.1.pkg" to the
> home computer and run it there, would this work or would it mess up
> Software Update's logging?
>
> As an alternative I guess I might be better off working with the
> corresponding download from
> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/, e.g.,
> "MacOSXUpdate10.2.1.dmg", assuming the software update is
> individually listed on the downloads page.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated. The goal is to avoid long, painful,
> 20 MB downloads over a 56 kbps modem line.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kalle
>
>
>
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