Re: Buying incremental MacOS releases on disc

In article <6E6f3b3Tzw$l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Larry Kilgallen
<Kilgallen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <slrnfj96b6.85j.foo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Gregory
<foo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

You have a slight problem there. Apple may never ship 10.5.1 media.
Even after 10.5.1 is released the only way to get it will be to
install 10.5.0 and then get the update over the Internet. At some
point they will probably start shipping more up to date media but
that may not be until 10.5.4 for example.

That is not a problem. I only mentioned 10.5.1 because it is a
version number I felt confident would actually exist. We can wait
until 10.5.4 (or whatever version ships on DVD) to buy the machine.

But it is not just the 10.5.n to 10.5.n+1 transitions you need to
worry about. Say you have somehow got 10.5.1 running without
receiving anything over the Internet, then what about the 10.5.1
security updates that might become available through Software Update?

No Internet is the rule. Consider recent reports of a MacOS X trojan
horse. From what I have read it requires downloading software. Just
like DoD rules against mobile code.

To infest your machine with the recently-reported trojan horse you must
go to a particular web page, read a warning that a particular feature
will not work without a particular plug-in, follow a link to another
web page to get that plug-in, download the disk image, and double-click
on the disk image to install the trojan horse in your system. None of
those actions, except downloading files, are involved in updating your
system software.

What you want to do is download the system and security updates from
the Apple website on another machine, then confirm that the downloaded
files have the same SHA-1 checksums as are published on the Apple
website. Then, you can copy the update files to a CD, mount the CD on
your secure machine, and install the updates. There should be no risk
in doing that.

--
Jim Gibson

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