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10.6: A Service to 'install and keep' software updates
Authored by: fracai on Dec 02, '09 06:45:32PM
Anyone looking to use this to download updates on a central machine and then share them to others might want to use something like the following rsync command.

sudo rsync -va --partial --exclude '/*.plist' user@host:/Library/Updates/ /Library/Updates
or rather
sudo rsync -va --partial --exclude '/*.plist' user@host:/Users/user/Updates/ /Library/Updates

The exclude flag ensures that the index.plist and ProductMetadata.plist are not copied. These likely will not matter, but they are also not necessary for new updates and may contain relevant data for incompletely applied packages. Updates that are downloaded but not listed in index.plist will show up as "Partially Downloaded (100%)".
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10.6: A Service to 'install and keep' software updates
Authored by: TvE on Dec 04, '09 08:36:12AM

Or perhaps just use OS X Servers SUS functionality (Software Update Service)



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