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Avoid an immediate restart after system updates
Authored by: benwiggy on Jul 05, '06 08:22:34AM

It's probably not wise to continue working after you've installed something that asked for a restart.

However, you can "queue up" several install packages to avoid sucessive optimizing and restarting.
If you double click on subsequent installer packages while one installation is running, they will install in order, followed by only one round of optimization and the request to restart.

This is a real timesaver when you have to do re-instal the whole system with all the updates.



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Avoid an immediate restart after system updates
Authored by: kyngchaos on Jul 05, '06 09:17:45AM

I like this one - much cleaner. I tried making a metapackage installer recently (requires Xcode tools) with QT, iTunes, 10.4.7 combo and Java 5, but only itunes and Java5 would install.



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Avoid an immediate restart after system updates
Authored by: Anonymous on Jul 05, '06 09:25:28AM

I made a Distribution Project (Tiger and above) using PackageMaker with 14 packages in it and had no problem whatsover. A complete update in one package.



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Avoid an immediate restart after system updates
Authored by: kyngchaos on Jul 05, '06 02:14:55PM

I've never tried a distribution project before, just metapackages. Maybe that's why it skipped some packages.



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Avoid an immediate restart after system updates
Authored by: kyngchaos on Jul 05, '06 02:12:36PM

Well, no so clean, but it works. It actually doesn't 'queue up' each, it just opens separate installer windows for each. You still must click thru each one (admin password once only).



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