Ok, I was under the impression that the reason /tmp couldn't be deployed to is because of the exclusion list in Composer. Perhaps I was mistaken or there is a bug.<div><br></div><div>What I have done that works is to create a folder in /Library for such purposes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I typically name it /Library/NameOfCompany and populate it with any files or folders that I need to use for deployment or management.</div><div><br></div><div>You should be able to deploy the installer to /Library/NameOfCompany/Adobe, and then call it with a script. However, I believe someone on this thread mentioned that this particular update won't take the -silent switch. Perhaps some UI scripting can get around this limitation?</div>
<div><br></div><div>My next question is why do you have to deploy this Installer from Adobe? Why not take a Composer snapshot, run the update and package the changes (including undoing any Adobe "repairs" you don't like)?<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Nichols, Jared <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jared.nichols@ll.mit.edu">jared.nichols@ll.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 12/8/08 12:50 , "Miles Leacy" <<a href="http://miles.leacy@themacadmin.com" target="_blank">miles.leacy@themacadmin.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div></span></font><blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><div class="Ih2E3d">Is there a best-practice way to run these updates then? I just tried deploying to /tmp and I don't seem to see it anywhere in there.<br>
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On 12/8/08 12:28 , "Smith, William" <<a href="http://william.smith@merrillcorp.com" target="_blank">william.smith@merrillcorp.com</a> <<a href="http://william.smith@merrillcorp.com" target="_blank">http://william.smith@merrillcorp.com</a>> > wrote:<br>
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These Acrobat updaters also require that you select the Acrobat application to patch and also may ask you to "repair" the installation, which is Adobespeak for "let me put back my Safari and Office plugins and set myself to default again." These prompts must be manually dismissed.<br>
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Also, JAMF may have a difficult time getting CS4 to work because the –silent update for those suites wants to connect to the Internet to download updates as part of the install process. In our environment our Macs must authenticate to our proxy (no free love access) and that just hangs the install.<br>
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