Re: how do you install multiple updates with a single restart?

Gary Gorbet wrote:

In article <bogus-0B0748.21043818012008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jim
<bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


In article <180120081957300583%ggorbet@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gary Gorbet <ggorbet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


In cases like the recent QuickTime and iTunes updates where both
require a restart, is there a way to tell the installer on the first to
hold off restarting until I've done the second? If I actually use
Software Update to download and install, it seems to know how to do all
installs before requiring a restart. How can I duplicate this behavior
when I install outside of Software Update???

THe procedure I use is to use Software Update to Download Only from the Update menu. This downloads to /Library/Packages.

When Software Update is done downloading, I quit S.U. Then I open /Library/Packages and initiate the installation of each package in turn, when the installation has reached the point where a restart is required, I simply move the GUI window aside and start the next installation. When the last package is installed, I click its restart button.

The machine then insists that I click the restart button in each of the windows that I've put aside, but it all works. It has worked this way for me since 10.2.something on iMacs, iBooks, and MacBooks of several generations.

jim


Good to know, Jim. Thanks. I'll use a hybrid of this procedure and the
similar one Clark mentioned earlier in this thread from now on.
- Gary


One thing that you might also want to consider though, is that some updates must be done in the correct sequence. for example, in some cases where there was multiple updates for something, you have to have theearlier ones in place first. That's why I think that just downloading all updates from Apple's site and then running them in any order might be a bad idea. When I use SU to identify updates I need, I process them as a "batch", restarting at the end of all of the installs. I then go back to SU and see if there are any subsequent updates to obtain, etc.


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