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Mirroring and Enabling Selected Updates from Apple
You use the Software Update Server module from the Computers & Services pane in
Server Admin to mirror software updates automatically from Apple.
To mirror selected software updates packages and enable them for download by
clients:
1 Open Software Update Server module in the Computers & Services pane in Server
Admin.
2 Make sure “Automatically mirror updates from Apple” is deselected.
3 Make sure “Automatically enable mirrored updates” is deselected.
4 Click Save.
5 Click the Updates button.
6 Select the individual software update packages you want to mirror by selecting the
checkbox in the mirror column of the package.
7 Select the individual software update packages you want to enable by selecting the
checkbox in the enable column of the package.
Pointing Non-Managed Clients to a Software Update Server
Use the following command to point non-managed client computers to a particular
Software Update server:
defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL
URL
Where URL is the URL of the Software Update server. For example:
http://su.domain_name.com:8088/
To remove a specific software update:
1 On the local Software Update server, open a Terminal window and type the following
command to list the folders that correspond to each software update:
grep swupd /etc/swupd/com.apple.server.swupdate.plist > ~/Desktop/
update_list.txt
This creates a file on your Desktop named update_list.txt. The file contains a list of all of
the software updates stored on the server.
2 Open the update_list.txt file. You’ll see that it contains information similar to the
following:
<string>/usr/share/swupd/html/061-2036/.../SecUpd2005-007Ri.tar</string>
<string>/usr/share/swupd/html/061-2048/.../SafariUpdate-2.0.1.tar</string>
Each update resides in a folder. In this example output, the folder /061-2048/ stores the
Safari 2.0.1 update.
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