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Hosting Lion Updated on Snow Leopard SUS.

  • July 23, 2011
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Here's a handy article I found on the Apple OS X Server RSS Feed regarding how to have your Snow Leopard server host Lion updates.

"Mac OS X Server v10.6: Hosting Software Updates for OS X Lion or Lion Server"
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4771

This is especially useful for someone like myself who is not ready to make the leap to Lion Server, and, only has one SUS for serving updates.

Enjoy!

-- Ted August
Salve Regina University

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  • Contributor
  • July 23, 2011

Excellent news!


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or use reposado to run SUS on any platform you like:

https://github.com/wdas/reposado


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  • July 23, 2011

I'll keep that in mind, but I still prefer using methods I know I can get support for if needed. Not that community support isn't all bad, fine example we use here. Free software can be very good, too, if there is enough people and momentum behind it.

We will see what happens when I need to retire my XServes next summer.

Thanks, Nate!

Craig E


donmontalvo
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  • July 23, 2011

Same for us. Our clients are all enterprise/health/gov and many are publicly owned, lots of regulations. So its hard to get buy in for non-supported solutions, despite how excellent it is.

The reposado project is very impressive...I hope Apple buys it (like they've bought other excellent tools from developers in the past and integrated into OSX client and server).

Don


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i don't see why apple would buy reposado. it's open source and basically mimics what their own tool does already. if anything, apple should incorporate branching (like reposado) and develop a better UI for their existing sus.


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  • July 25, 2011

Oh thank the lord. At least we won't have to upgrade our 3 SUS servers to Lion (and deal with all the fun that could entail) until we're ready to go to Reposado.

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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
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  • Valued Contributor
  • July 25, 2011

I hope to hell Apple stays country miles away from Reposado.
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436


RobertHammen
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  • July 25, 2011

+1, considering they've never been able to make SUS on 10.6.x work correctly without corrupting the catalogs if you turn off "automatically enable copied updates"... *sigh*
On Jul 25, 2011, at 5:35 AM, Nichols, Jared - 1170 - MITLL wrote:

--Robert