index.sucatalog

[krau...@gmail.com]

I noticed all updates do not appear in the universal index.sucatalog.
When I check my Apple SUS I see that file is 1.3MB, in reposado it is
around 800K and the same if I grab it from http://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/index.sucatalog
Do you have any ideas why those differences exist?

Thanks,

Eric Krause

[Greg Neagle]

On Mar 1, 2012, at 6:37 AM, krau...@gmail.com wrote:

> I noticed all updates do not appear in the universal index.sucatalog.

There is no such thing as a universal catalog; there are only OS-specific catalogs.

Apple's SUS in 10.6 gives the appearance of a universal catalog by using Apache URL rewrites; 10.7 uses a combination of Apache URL rewrites and a CGI to achieve the same effect.

Since you have to use your own web server with reposado to serve updates, you'll need to configure your web server to do URL rewrites if you need that functionality.

I've never bothered, myself, and just point my clients to the OS-specific (branch) catalogs.

> When I check my Apple SUS I see that file is 1.3MB, in reposado it is
> around 800K and the same if I grab it from http://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/index.sucatalog
> Do you have any ideas why those differences exist?

The "real" index.sucatalog is the catalog for Tiger.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric Krause