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downloading files from local server?
Authored by: redjar on Apr 16, '04 01:35:23PM

This is pretty cool. The clients unfortunately still have to download the packages from a remote server (over a slow internet connection). It would be nice if they could grab the packages from a local server. Anyone tried to tackle this?

The commandline softwareupdate tool doesn't appear to have an option to install a package that is already on the machine, or on a server other than apple's. It'd be nice if Apple released software to do this (similar to Microsoft's Software Update Server or whatever it's called.)

Maybe someone will come up with one independently. Looks like it checks swquery.apple.com for the updates and then downloads them from an akamai server



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